A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 5 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page 1812
... honor to transmit to the Secretary of State of the United States , by order of his Government , the accompanying printed copies of a report and map which have been presented to Her Majesty's Government by Colonel Mudge and Mr ...
... honor to transmit to the Secretary of State of the United States , by order of his Government , the accompanying printed copies of a report and map which have been presented to Her Majesty's Government by Colonel Mudge and Mr ...
Page 1814
... honor to receive a note addressed to him on the 22d instant by Mr. Fox , envoy extraordi- nary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain , inclosing printed copies of the report and map laid before the British Government by the ...
... honor to receive a note addressed to him on the 22d instant by Mr. Fox , envoy extraordi- nary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain , inclosing printed copies of the report and map laid before the British Government by the ...
Page 1815
... honor to transmit herewith a report of the Commanding General , embracing the substance of the answers of the several officers who were applied to to furnish the information required by a resolution of the Senate of the 12th March last ...
... honor to transmit herewith a report of the Commanding General , embracing the substance of the answers of the several officers who were applied to to furnish the information required by a resolution of the Senate of the 12th March last ...
Page 1816
... honor to report directly to the Secre- tary of War with regard to the naval force recently maintained upon the American lakes by Great Britain . In answer to a similar letter to that addressed to General Scott , General Brady writes ...
... honor to report directly to the Secre- tary of War with regard to the naval force recently maintained upon the American lakes by Great Britain . In answer to a similar letter to that addressed to General Scott , General Brady writes ...
Page 1820
... honor of the country were deeply involved , have in the course of a few years ( the most of them during the successful Administration of my immediate predecessor ) been brought to a satisfactory conclusion ; and the most important of ...
... honor of the country were deeply involved , have in the course of a few years ( the most of them during the successful Administration of my immediate predecessor ) been brought to a satisfactory conclusion ; and the most important of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accompanying adopted American annexation appointed authority bank Bay of Chaleurs boundary branch Britain character citizens claim commissioners communicate compliance Congress consideration Constitution convention copy Croix December Department direction duty Executive existing Featherstonhaugh foreign Governor Grand Falls Halls Stream herewith transmit highlands honor House of Representatives important Indians instant interests JAMES K JOHN TYLER Lake land latitude Lawrence legislature Majesty's Government March measure ment meridian line Mexico miles military minister Mudge nations Navy necessary negotiation northwest angle Nova Scotia object observations officers operations opinion party peace POLK portage present President principles regard relation Republic request resolution respect revenue Rhode Island Rimouski river St Secretary Secretary of War Senate session stream submit survey Temiscouata territory Texas tion trade transmit herewith Treasury treaty of 1783 treaty of Ghent Union United vessels WASHINGTON William Henry Harrison
Popular passages
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...