The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1849 - United States |
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Page 1589
... Henry GLEN , JONATHAN N. HAVENS , JOHN E. VAN ALLEN , PHI- LIP VAN CORTLANDT , and JOHN WILLIAMS . From New Jersey . - JONATHAN DAYTON , AARON KITCHELL , and ISAAC SMITH . From Pennsylvania . - ALBERT GALLATIN , SA- MUEL MACLAY ...
... Henry GLEN , JONATHAN N. HAVENS , JOHN E. VAN ALLEN , PHI- LIP VAN CORTLANDT , and JOHN WILLIAMS . From New Jersey . - JONATHAN DAYTON , AARON KITCHELL , and ISAAC SMITH . From Pennsylvania . - ALBERT GALLATIN , SA- MUEL MACLAY ...
Page 1665
... Henry Glen , Chauncey Goodrich , Roger Griswold , Robert Samuel Lyman , Francis Malbone , John Reed , Samuel Goodloe Harper , Thomas Hartley , William Hindman , Sewall , Samuel Sitgreaves , Nathaniel Smith , Isaac Smith , William Smith ...
... Henry Glen , Chauncey Goodrich , Roger Griswold , Robert Samuel Lyman , Francis Malbone , John Reed , Samuel Goodloe Harper , Thomas Hartley , William Hindman , Sewall , Samuel Sitgreaves , Nathaniel Smith , Isaac Smith , William Smith ...
Page 1667
... Henry Glen , Chauncey Goodrich , Andrew Gregg , Roger Griswold , William B. Grove , Robert Goodloe Harper , Carter B ... Henry Dearborn , George Dent , George Ege , Abiel Foster , Dwight Foster , Jesse Franklin , Nathaniel Freeman , jr ...
... Henry Glen , Chauncey Goodrich , Andrew Gregg , Roger Griswold , William B. Grove , Robert Goodloe Harper , Carter B ... Henry Dearborn , George Dent , George Ege , Abiel Foster , Dwight Foster , Jesse Franklin , Nathaniel Freeman , jr ...
Page 1727
... Henry Glen , Andrew Gregg , Robert Goodloe Harper , Thomas Hartley , William Hindman , Francis Malbone , John Milledge , Frederick A. Muhlenberg , William Vans Murray , John Page , Elisha R. Potter , John Richards , Robert Rutherford ...
... Henry Glen , Andrew Gregg , Robert Goodloe Harper , Thomas Hartley , William Hindman , Francis Malbone , John Milledge , Frederick A. Muhlenberg , William Vans Murray , John Page , Elisha R. Potter , John Richards , Robert Rutherford ...
Page 1809
... Henry Glen , William B. Grove , John Ha- thorn , Jonathan N. Havens , William Hindman , James Holland , George Jackson , Edward Livingston , Mat- thew Locke , William Lyman , Nathaniel Macon , Wm . Vans Murray , John Page , William ...
... Henry Glen , William B. Grove , John Ha- thorn , Jonathan N. Havens , William Hindman , James Holland , George Jackson , Edward Livingston , Mat- thew Locke , William Lyman , Nathaniel Macon , Wm . Vans Murray , John Page , William ...
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Abiel Foster Abraham Venable additional agreed amendment appointed appropriation believed bill cent citizens claim commerce Commissioners Committee compensation Congress consideration debt Dempsey Burges direct tax duty entitled An act expense favor FEBRUARY foreign Francis Malbone frigates frontier GALLATIN gentleman from South Government granted HARPER Henry Glen hoped House of Representatives hundred indirect Isaac Coles JANUARY John John Wilkes Kittera Joshua Coit laid land last session Lyman ment Military Establishment Militia motion Nathan Bryan nation Naval necessary NICHOLAS object officers opinion paid passed petition present PRESIDENT proper proposed question reason referred regiments resolution Resolved respect revenue salary Samuel Samuel Maclay Secretary Senate sent settlement SITGREAVES SMITH South Carolina supposed SWANWICK taken taxation thought thousand dollars tion Treasury Treaty United vote wanted Whole William William Craik William Hindman wished York
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Page 1595 - ... charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement. This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common center the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown that they are very cheap instruments...
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Page 2297 - An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned...
Page 1567 - An act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States...
Page 1561 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
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Page 1987 - An act giving effect to the laws of the United States within the district of Tennessee.
Page 1597 - The situation in which I now stand for the last time in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced, and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may...