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Page 1822
... condition of their finances and the success with which embarrassments in regard to them , at times apparently insurmount- able , have been overcome are matters upon which the people and Gov- ernment of the United States may well ...
... condition of their finances and the success with which embarrassments in regard to them , at times apparently insurmount- able , have been overcome are matters upon which the people and Gov- ernment of the United States may well ...
Page 1823
... condition for the last four years in relation to revenue , we have during the same period been subjected to an unavoida- ble continuance of large extraordinary expenses necessarily growing out of past transactions , and which could not ...
... condition for the last four years in relation to revenue , we have during the same period been subjected to an unavoida- ble continuance of large extraordinary expenses necessarily growing out of past transactions , and which could not ...
Page 1825
... condition made hostile to the success and per- manency of political institutions like ours . Most humiliating may be the the embarrassments consequent upon such a condition . Another objec- tion , scarcely less formidable , to the ...
... condition made hostile to the success and per- manency of political institutions like ours . Most humiliating may be the the embarrassments consequent upon such a condition . Another objec- tion , scarcely less formidable , to the ...
Page 1830
... condition of the country , without the creation of a permanent public debt or incurring any liability other than such as the ordinary resources of the Government will speedily discharge , and without the agency of a national bank . If ...
... condition of the country , without the creation of a permanent public debt or incurring any liability other than such as the ordinary resources of the Government will speedily discharge , and without the agency of a national bank . If ...
Page 1832
... condition into which it had been plunged by excesses in trade , banking , and credits of all kinds was to place the busi- ness transactions of the Government itself on a solid basis , giving and receiving in all cases value for value ...
... condition into which it had been plunged by excesses in trade , banking , and credits of all kinds was to place the busi- ness transactions of the Government itself on a solid basis , giving and receiving in all cases value for value ...
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Page 1979 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., from the North-west Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a line drawn due North, from the source of the St.
Page 1988 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of 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...
Page 1979 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 2108 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 1980 - Ocean; east, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid high lands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 1866 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Page 1979 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron; thence along the middle of said water communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that...
Page 1952 - President to give, from time to time, to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...