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... establishments in the increasingly competitive graphics business in Washington . Unlike his partner , little is known of the personal life of William A. Davis apart from the record that he married Elizabeth Santford on August 18 , 1798 ...
... establishments in the increasingly competitive graphics business in Washington . Unlike his partner , little is known of the personal life of William A. Davis apart from the record that he married Elizabeth Santford on August 18 , 1798 ...
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... establishment , has been attended with dif ficulties which even now can only be overcome by legislative aid . The selection of officers ; the pay- ment and discharge of the troops enlisted for the war ; the payment of the retained ...
... establishment , has been attended with dif ficulties which even now can only be overcome by legislative aid . The selection of officers ; the pay- ment and discharge of the troops enlisted for the war ; the payment of the retained ...
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... establishment , the staff officers who have hitherto been provisionally retained , is also recommended to the consideration of congress . In the performance of the executive duty upon this occasion , there has not been wanting a just ...
... establishment , the staff officers who have hitherto been provisionally retained , is also recommended to the consideration of congress . In the performance of the executive duty upon this occasion , there has not been wanting a just ...
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United States. Congress. Senate. lieved , do honour to the establishment ; while the case of those officers , whose names are not in- cluded in it , devolves , with the strongest interest , upon the legislative authority , for such ...
United States. Congress. Senate. lieved , do honour to the establishment ; while the case of those officers , whose names are not in- cluded in it , devolves , with the strongest interest , upon the legislative authority , for such ...
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... establishment , will necessarily enter into the deliberations of congress during the present ses- sion . It is true that the improved condition of the public revenue will not only afford the means of maintaining the faith of the ...
... establishment , will necessarily enter into the deliberations of congress during the present ses- sion . It is true that the improved condition of the public revenue will not only afford the means of maintaining the faith of the ...
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Page 65 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 21 - In selecting the branches more especially entitled to the public patronage, a preference is obviously claimed by such as will relieve the United States from a dependence on foreign supplies, ever subject to casual failures, for articles necessary for the public defence, or connected with the primary wants of individuals.
Page 384 - An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States," shall be paid, for each year, respectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Page 641 - States to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or Treasury notes, or notes of the Bank of the United States...
Page 376 - ... shall hold, in the proportions following, that is to say, for one share and not more than two shares, one vote ; for every two shares above two, and not exceeding ten, one vote ; for every four shares above ten, and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every six shares above thirty, and not exceeding sixty, one vote ; for every eight shares above sixty, and not exceeding one hundred, one vote; and for every ten shares above one hundred, one vote; but no person, copartnership, or body politic,...
Page 464 - An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of Government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same...
Page 22 - Whilst the States individually, with a laudable enterprise and emulation, avail themselves of their local advantages by new roads, by navigable canals, and by improving the streams susceptible of navigation, the General Government is the more urged to similar undertakings, requiring a national jurisdiction and national means, by the prospect of thus systematically completing so inestimable a work; and it is a happy reflection that any defect of constitutional authority which may be encountered can...
Page 289 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Page 112 - RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz...
Page 15 - Although the embarrassments arising from the want of an uniform national currency have not been diminished since the adjournment of Congress, great satisfaction has been derived in contemplating the revival of the public credit and the efficiency of the public resources. The receipts into the Treasury from the various...