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... Island , letter from the Secretary of War , relating to an appropriation to build permanent barracks at .. letter from the Secretary of War , on same subject as above .. Allegany reservation , letter from the Secretary of the Interior ...
... Island , letter from the Secretary of War , relating to an appropriation to build permanent barracks at .. letter from the Secretary of War , on same subject as above .. Allegany reservation , letter from the Secretary of the Interior ...
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... Island ... letter from the Secretary of War , relative to an appropriation to build permanent barracks at Alcatraz Island ... 16 231 16 234 17 266 Subject . Appropriations , letter from the Secretary of the INDEX .
... Island ... letter from the Secretary of War , relative to an appropriation to build permanent barracks at Alcatraz Island ... 16 231 16 234 17 266 Subject . Appropriations , letter from the Secretary of the INDEX .
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... Island 15 266 Bids for Indian goods , letter from the Secretary of the Inte- rior , transmitting draught of bill for regulating ... Board of public works , report of the , of the District of Co- lumbia 15 238 3 6 1 Subject . Boiler ...
... Island 15 266 Bids for Indian goods , letter from the Secretary of the Inte- rior , transmitting draught of bill for regulating ... Board of public works , report of the , of the District of Co- lumbia 15 238 3 6 1 Subject . Boiler ...
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... Island ... letter from the Secretary of War , relative to the removal of the north pier of the old railroad , of the Chicago , Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , at Davenport , Iowa letter from the Secretary of War , relative to nar ...
... Island ... letter from the Secretary of War , relative to the removal of the north pier of the old railroad , of the Chicago , Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , at Davenport , Iowa letter from the Secretary of War , relative to nar ...
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... Island military reservation , letter from the Secretary of War , relative to the sale of the , in Gulf of Mexico .. Hot Springs , letter from the Secretary of the Interior , in answer to a resolution of the House , in relation to the ...
... Island military reservation , letter from the Secretary of War , relative to the sale of the , in Gulf of Mexico .. Hot Springs , letter from the Secretary of the Interior , in answer to a resolution of the House , in relation to the ...
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Page 271 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 271 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 281 - ... provided, however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours, for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to . them.
Page 282 - Parties, that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have for ever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind...
Page 279 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 418 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or in the event of any commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the. period of three months in case of such substitution being calculated from the date of the happening of the vacancy.
Page 319 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 281 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.
Page 299 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 424 - In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.