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Page 1810
... tion to certain lands falling within the Chickasaw cession which have been sold at Chocchuma and Columbus , in Mississippi , and invite the attention of Congress to the subject of further legislation in relation to them . M. VAN BUREN ...
... tion to certain lands falling within the Chickasaw cession which have been sold at Chocchuma and Columbus , in Mississippi , and invite the attention of Congress to the subject of further legislation in relation to them . M. VAN BUREN ...
Page 1813
... tion , concur with the Government of the United States in thinking that it is on every account expedient that the next measure to be adopted by the two Govern- ments should contain arrangements which will necessarily lead to a final ...
... tion , concur with the Government of the United States in thinking that it is on every account expedient that the next measure to be adopted by the two Govern- ments should contain arrangements which will necessarily lead to a final ...
Page 1825
... tion , scarcely less formidable , to the commencement of a new debt is its inevitable tendency to increase in magnitude and to foster national Lextravagance . He has been an unprofitable observer of events who needs at this day to be ...
... tion , scarcely less formidable , to the commencement of a new debt is its inevitable tendency to increase in magnitude and to foster national Lextravagance . He has been an unprofitable observer of events who needs at this day to be ...
Page 1827
... a duty specially enjoined upon me by the Constitu- tion . It will serve also to illustrate more fully the principles by which I have been guided in reference to two contested points 1827 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
... a duty specially enjoined upon me by the Constitu- tion . It will serve also to illustrate more fully the principles by which I have been guided in reference to two contested points 1827 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
Page 1828
... tion of the Constitution in a great measure originated , and there is too much reason to apprehend that the conflicting interests and opposing principles thus marshaled will continue as heretofore to produce similar if not aggravated ...
... tion of the Constitution in a great measure originated , and there is too much reason to apprehend that the conflicting interests and opposing principles thus marshaled will continue as heretofore to produce similar if not aggravated ...
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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...