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... honor , yesterday , to receive your letter of the 23d instant , making certain inquiries relative to British slaves captured by the American vessels , during the late war . In order that I may give as precise and full answers to the ...
... honor , yesterday , to receive your letter of the 23d instant , making certain inquiries relative to British slaves captured by the American vessels , during the late war . In order that I may give as precise and full answers to the ...
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... honor to be , & c . & c . [ Signed ] STEPHEN PLEASONTON . The committee are of opinion that the petitioners are entitled to the bounty authorized by law , for each and every combatant , whether freeman or slave ; that it was not ...
... honor to be , & c . & c . [ Signed ] STEPHEN PLEASONTON . The committee are of opinion that the petitioners are entitled to the bounty authorized by law , for each and every combatant , whether freeman or slave ; that it was not ...
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... honor , yesterday , to receive your letter of the 23d instant , making certain inquiries relative to British slaves captured by the American vessels , during the late war . In order that I may give as precise and full answers to the ...
... honor , yesterday , to receive your letter of the 23d instant , making certain inquiries relative to British slaves captured by the American vessels , during the late war . In order that I may give as precise and full answers to the ...
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... honored him with the brevet rank of captain , and also voted him a pension of $ 100 per annum ; that he has lived on that small pension , and by teaching the French language ; but his sight being now impaired , his infirmi- ties ...
... honored him with the brevet rank of captain , and also voted him a pension of $ 100 per annum ; that he has lived on that small pension , and by teaching the French language ; but his sight being now impaired , his infirmi- ties ...
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... honor to state , for the information of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives , that several contracts have , at different periods , been made with colonel Hughes for ordnance , shot , and kentledge ; that , in some of ...
... honor to state , for the information of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives , that several contracts have , at different periods , been made with colonel Hughes for ordnance , shot , and kentledge ; that , in some of ...
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accounts aforesaid agent alleged amount appears appointed appropriation army authority Bill British Calvert county Capitol captain cents certificate claimant Colonel Brearly command commissioners Committee of Claims Congress court house David Brearly December Delawares Department deponent deposition destroyed destruction District dollars duty dwelling house Ebenezer Sage enemy entitled evidence expenditures expense February Fort Hawkins Fort Mitchell Fort Scott Fowl Town freemen frontier furnished Georgia honor House of Representatives hundred Indians James Guyon January John Joseph Janey Judge Advocate land letter March ment military militia Mohiccans Monday's Point Moses Hazen nation Navy officers opinion ordered to lie payment Pensions petitioner present provisions Public Buildings received referred the petition relief resolution Resolved respectfully Richard Bland Lee river Secretary Secretary of War Seminole Seminole war store house territory testimony thereof tion Treasury treaty treaty of Brownstown troops United votes warriors whole House William
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Page 5 - Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary be directed to inquire into the expediency of...
Page 4 - That the same computation shall extend to the corps not belonging to the lines of particular states, and who are entitled to half pay for life as aforesaid ; the acceptance or refusal to be determined by corps, and to be signified in the same manner, and within the same time as above mentioned.
Page 10 - ... there be no limitation either in the manner or measure of the punishment, the condition of the citizen will be perilous indeed. Which of these doctrines is to prevail, time will decide. Where there is no fixed law, the judgment on any particular case is the law of that single case only, and dies with it.
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