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Page 1952
... for the increase of knowledge . " The fund now amounts to over a million . The building was designed by Renwick , architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York . > E " U.S. President A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND.
... for the increase of knowledge . " The fund now amounts to over a million . The building was designed by Renwick , architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York . > E " U.S. President A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND.
Page 1959
... increasing embarrassments of the Treasury impose upon me the indispensable obligation of again inviting your most serious attention to the condition of the finances . Fortunately for myself in thus bringing this important subject to ...
... increasing embarrassments of the Treasury impose upon me the indispensable obligation of again inviting your most serious attention to the condition of the finances . Fortunately for myself in thus bringing this important subject to ...
Page 1960
... increase under existing laws , unless we consent to give up or impair all our defenses in war and peace . But this ... increased than diminished without the adoption of measures adequate to correct the evil at once . The stagnation of ...
... increase under existing laws , unless we consent to give up or impair all our defenses in war and peace . But this ... increased than diminished without the adoption of measures adequate to correct the evil at once . The stagnation of ...
Page 1961
... increase of duties in some instances beyond the rate of 20 per cent will exist in fulfilling the recommen- dations already made , and now repeated , of making adequate appropria tions for the defenses of the country . By the express ...
... increase of duties in some instances beyond the rate of 20 per cent will exist in fulfilling the recommen- dations already made , and now repeated , of making adequate appropria tions for the defenses of the country . By the express ...
Page 1962
... increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and disem- barrass the public Treasury , would cause it to be regarded as an unwise alienation of the best security of the public creditor ...
... increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and disem- barrass the public Treasury , would cause it to be regarded as an unwise alienation of the best security of the public creditor ...
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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.