A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 5 |
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Page 1959
... important subject to your view for a deliberate and comprehensive examination in all its bearings , and I trust I may add for a final adjustment of it to the common advantage of the whole Union , I am permitted to approach it with ...
... important subject to your view for a deliberate and comprehensive examination in all its bearings , and I trust I may add for a final adjustment of it to the common advantage of the whole Union , I am permitted to approach it with ...
Page 1961
... important work of revising the tariff of duties , which in the present emergency would seem to be indispensable , I can not too strongly recommend the cultiva . tion of a spirit of mutual harmony and concession , to which the Govern ...
... important work of revising the tariff of duties , which in the present emergency would seem to be indispensable , I can not too strongly recommend the cultiva . tion of a spirit of mutual harmony and concession , to which the Govern ...
Page 1968
... important in the distant view , are hidden by their own slopes or lose the appearance of relative elevation in ... importance which their elevation above the valleys when actually meas- ured does not warrant . The characteristics of the ...
... important in the distant view , are hidden by their own slopes or lose the appearance of relative elevation in ... importance which their elevation above the valleys when actually meas- ured does not warrant . The characteristics of the ...
Page 1970
... important northern tributary is the Grand River . In ascending this stream the level of the table - land is soon reached . The river runs between banks of very moderate elevation and on a regular slope , and although run- ning with ...
... important northern tributary is the Grand River . In ascending this stream the level of the table - land is soon reached . The river runs between banks of very moderate elevation and on a regular slope , and although run- ning with ...
Page 1977
... important that both the lines claimed by Great Britain and by the United States should be explored and leveled — a task which until recently had not been attempted on either part . The examination of the lines claimed by the two nations ...
... important that both the lines claimed by Great Britain and by the United States should be explored and leveled — a task which until recently had not been attempted on either part . The examination of the lines claimed by the two nations ...
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Page 1979 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 1980 - Lawrence : comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.