The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... persons , and at the dates respectively named and stated , in a schedule , containing also the form of the letter , marked A , and here- with transmitted . These gentlemen , I understand , entered upon the duties desig- nated , at the ...
... persons , and at the dates respectively named and stated , in a schedule , containing also the form of the letter , marked A , and here- with transmitted . These gentlemen , I understand , entered upon the duties desig- nated , at the ...
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... persons to ascertain precisely what the statute law really is . It seems to me very important that the statute laws should be made as plain and intelligible as possible , and be reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the ...
... persons to ascertain precisely what the statute law really is . It seems to me very important that the statute laws should be made as plain and intelligible as possible , and be reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the ...
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... persons upon proof of their disloyalty . I recommend that Congress authorize that officer to cause the names of such per- sons to be stricken from the pension rolls . The relations of the government with the Indian tribes have been ...
... persons upon proof of their disloyalty . I recommend that Congress authorize that officer to cause the names of such per- sons to be stricken from the pension rolls . The relations of the government with the Indian tribes have been ...
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... persons to the labor and service of certain other persons have become forfeited ; and numbers of the latter , thus liberated , are already dependent on the United States , and must be provided for in some way . Besides this , it is not ...
... persons to the labor and service of certain other persons have become forfeited ; and numbers of the latter , thus liberated , are already dependent on the United States , and must be provided for in some way . Besides this , it is not ...
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United States. President. ch States respectively ; that such persons , on such acceptance by the neral government , be at once deemed free ; and that , in any event , ps be taken for colonizing both classes , ( or the one first mentioned ...
United States. President. ch States respectively ; that such persons , on such acceptance by the neral government , be at once deemed free ; and that , in any event , ps be taken for colonizing both classes , ( or the one first mentioned ...
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Page 187 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 163 - Government, directly or indirectly, commences or carries on any verbal or written correspondence or intercourse with any foreign Government or any officer or agent thereof, with an intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign Government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the Government of the United States...
Page 17 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 548 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1906.
Page 188 - Constitution and the laws, do hereby declare and proclaim: 1. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods with the exception of contraband of war. 2. Neutral goods not contraband of war are not liable to confiscation under the enemy's flag.
Page 465 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 522 - Deaf was incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind under act of Congress, February 16, 1857 (11 Stat.
Page 143 - In affixing his signature to the convention of this day between Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, the Earl Russell declares, by order of Her Majesty, that Her Majesty does not intend thereby to undertake any engagement which shall have any bearing, direct or indirect, on the internal differences now prevailing in the United States.
Page 145 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 251 - Accept the assurances of the high consideration with which. I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, THOUVENEL.