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... remain in this capital ( New Orleans ) , or be expelled altogether from the province . * * * * * * * " M. de Mézières shall cause the inhabitants to make to their parochial church all the repairs which decency and 20 O'REILLY'S ...
... remain in this capital ( New Orleans ) , or be expelled altogether from the province . * * * * * * * " M. de Mézières shall cause the inhabitants to make to their parochial church all the repairs which decency and 20 O'REILLY'S ...
Page 43
... remains nothing but the alternate lassitude and self - torment of thought . Therefore a pure and sound mind ought ever to have its eyes fixed on heaven . " * Hijo mio , yo estoy yá con el pie en la sepultura y tengo no efectos de ...
... remains nothing but the alternate lassitude and self - torment of thought . Therefore a pure and sound mind ought ever to have its eyes fixed on heaven . " * Hijo mio , yo estoy yá con el pie en la sepultura y tengo no efectos de ...
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... But one of the most astonishing effects of this hurricane remains to be related . Within four weeks after it had been over , such of the mulberry trees as had escaped its fury , produced a second 48 DISASTROUS HURRICANE .
... But one of the most astonishing effects of this hurricane remains to be related . Within four weeks after it had been over , such of the mulberry trees as had escaped its fury , produced a second 48 DISASTROUS HURRICANE .
Page 62
... remain to enjoy all the pleasures of the feast . This is contrary to our holy habits , and your Grace will order , no doubt , that , hence- forth , marriages be celebrated in church , except in case of ill - health in the parties , or ...
... remain to enjoy all the pleasures of the feast . This is contrary to our holy habits , and your Grace will order , no doubt , that , hence- forth , marriages be celebrated in church , except in case of ill - health in the parties , or ...
Page 73
... remains for us to do is to write to the Court , to obtain the dismission of father Dagobert , and , perhaps , of some other persons . I think that it would require very little effort to obtain this dismission , and if , to replace these ...
... remains for us to do is to write to the Court , to obtain the dismission of father Dagobert , and , perhaps , of some other persons . I think that it would require very little effort to obtain this dismission , and if , to replace these ...
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Page 621 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 574 - Congress, all the military, civil and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same, shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United States shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion.
Page 622 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 621 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial, and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct ; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 640 - THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion, mentioned in the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th...
Page 492 - ... the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States...
Page 521 - Irresolution and deliberation are no longer- in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony without any reservation.
Page 621 - Congress, unless provision for the temporary government of the said territories be sooner made by Congress, all the military, civil and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same, shall...
Page 552 - He believed the assent of each individual State to be necessary for the admission of a foreign country as an associate in the Union : in like manner as in a commercial house, the consent of each member would be necessary to admit a new partner into the company ; and whether the assent of every State to such an indispensable amendment were attainable, was uncertain.
Page 642 - As it is reciprocally advantageous to the commerce of France and the United States to encourage the communication of both nations for a limited time in the country ceded by the present treaty, until general arrangements relative to the commerce of both nations may be agreed upon, it has been agreed between the contracting...