The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United StatesGales and Seaton, 1849 - United States |
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United States. Congress. 霄 SENATE . ] Proceedings . United States , and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled and ready to receive any communications he may please to make to them ; in which resolution they desire the ...
United States. Congress. 霄 SENATE . ] Proceedings . United States , and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled and ready to receive any communications he may please to make to them ; in which resolution they desire the ...
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United States. Congress. Proceedings . WEDNESDAY , October 26 . RUFUS KING , from the State of New York , and JOHN HENRY , from the State of Maryland , attended . The following Letter , dated October 25th , 1791 , from the Treasurer of ...
United States. Congress. Proceedings . WEDNESDAY , October 26 . RUFUS KING , from the State of New York , and JOHN HENRY , from the State of Maryland , attended . The following Letter , dated October 25th , 1791 , from the Treasurer of ...
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United States. Congress. Proceedings . NOVEMBER , 1791. ] TUESDAY , November 1 . Proceedings. SENATE . ] The Message and papers therein referred to were read ; and ordered to lie for consideration . The following Message from the ...
United States. Congress. Proceedings . NOVEMBER , 1791. ] TUESDAY , November 1 . Proceedings. SENATE . ] The Message and papers therein referred to were read ; and ordered to lie for consideration . The following Message from the ...
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... United States : Gentlemen of the Senate , and of the House of Representatives : The resolution passed at the last session of Congress , requesting the President of the United States to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress , at ...
... United States : Gentlemen of the Senate , and of the House of Representatives : The resolution passed at the last session of Congress , requesting the President of the United States to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress , at ...
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Page 211 - Such depositions may be taken before any judge of any court of the United States, or any commissioner of a circuit, or any clerk of a district or circuit court, or any chancellor, justice, or judge of a supreme or superior court, mayor or chief magistrate of a city, judge of a county court, or court of common pleas of any of the United States...
Page 747 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 629 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 657 - An Act to provide more effectually for the Collection of the Duties imposed by Law on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United States, and on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels...
Page 75 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 131 - An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States...
Page 73 - ... the thousandth part of a dollar, and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.
Page 679 - That a committee be appointed to inquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Major General St. Clair; and that the said Committee be empowered to call for such persons, papers, and records, as may be necessary to assist their inquiries.
Page 639 - An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual States...
Page 121 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.