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Page 311 - An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war...
Page 349 - An Act to regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve Peace on the Frontiers...
Page 77 - An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war...
Page 328 - Florida from the operation of certain ordinances, having been reported by the committee correctly engrossed, was read a third time. Resolved, That this bill pass and that the title thereof be " An act to relieve the people of Florida from the operation of certain ordinances.
Page 115 - an act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states according to the first enumeration,' and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections.
Page 399 - Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," whereby the said state has become one of the United States of America; in order therefore to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the...
Page 147 - An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans...
Page 146 - Spanish growth or manufactures, directly from the ports of Spain or of her colonies, shall be admitted for the term of twelve years, to the ports of Pensacola and St. Augustine, in the Floridas, without paying other or higher duties on their cargoes, or of tonnage, than will be paid by the vessels of the United States.
Page 253 - An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and...
Page 180 - Atlantic, and these provinces, make the, movement an affair of less interest and excitement to them, than to us. It is probable, therefore, that they have been less attentive to its progress than we have been. It may be presumed, however, that the late events will dispel all doubt of the result.

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