The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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The entire expenses of the expedition have been defrayed out of the ordinary appropriations for the naval service , except the sum of $ 289,000 applied to the ... under the authority of the naval appropriation act of the 3d March last .
The entire expenses of the expedition have been defrayed out of the ordinary appropriations for the naval service , except the sum of $ 289,000 applied to the ... under the authority of the naval appropriation act of the 3d March last .
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The thirty - fifth Congress terminated on the 3d of March , 1859 , with- out having passed the " act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the 30th of June , 1860.
The thirty - fifth Congress terminated on the 3d of March , 1859 , with- out having passed the " act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the 30th of June , 1860.
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Had the bill which failed been confined to appropriations for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June next , there would have been no reason of pressing importance for the call of an extra session . Nothing would become due on contracts ...
Had the bill which failed been confined to appropriations for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June next , there would have been no reason of pressing importance for the call of an extra session . Nothing would become due on contracts ...
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But the contest has been an unequal and a losing one between the power of confiscation and appropriation and the prohibition of the international code , ap- pealing for its sanctions only to the consciences of nations .
But the contest has been an unequal and a losing one between the power of confiscation and appropriation and the prohibition of the international code , ap- pealing for its sanctions only to the consciences of nations .
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It was , of course , impossible to provide , in the appropriation bills for the current fiscal year , for the payment to the Indians of the amounts stipulated by the several treaties ; yet , as the expenditure properly belongs to this ...
It was , of course , impossible to provide , in the appropriation bills for the current fiscal year , for the payment to the Indians of the amounts stipulated by the several treaties ; yet , as the expenditure properly belongs to this ...
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| Title | The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
| Author | United States. President |
| Published | 1860 |
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