The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United StatesGales and Seaton, 1849 - United States |
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... debt of the United States , has embraced by far the greatest proportion of that debt ; affording , at the same time , proof of the general satisfaction of the public creditors with the system which has been pro- posed to their ...
... debt of the United States , has embraced by far the greatest proportion of that debt ; affording , at the same time , proof of the general satisfaction of the public creditors with the system which has been pro- posed to their ...
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... debt ; which was read the first time , and ordered to pass to the second reading . dier in the militia . " Also , these words , section 8 , " prescribed to the late army of the United States by the then Major General Baron Steuben ...
... debt ; which was read the first time , and ordered to pass to the second reading . dier in the militia . " Also , these words , section 8 , " prescribed to the late army of the United States by the then Major General Baron Steuben ...
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... debt of the United States ; " in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate . The bill , entitled " An act supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of the United States , " was read the first time ; and , by unanimous ...
... debt of the United States ; " in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate . The bill , entitled " An act supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of the United States , " was read the first time ; and , by unanimous ...
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... DEBT . [ NOVEMBER , 1791 . tioned memorial , viz : that a committee would be appointed to bring in a bill allowing to prisoners , confined in any State under the authority of the United States , the same privileges and immuni- ties as ...
... DEBT . [ NOVEMBER , 1791 . tioned memorial , viz : that a committee would be appointed to bring in a bill allowing to prisoners , confined in any State under the authority of the United States , the same privileges and immuni- ties as ...
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... debt which is not cognizable by Congress , as it gress . The petition ( said he ) appears to create a sylvania , WILLIAM FINDLAY ; from North Caro- lína , JOHN BAPTIST ASHE ; and from Georgia , ABRAHAM BALDWIN ; appeared , produced ...
... debt which is not cognizable by Congress , as it gress . The petition ( said he ) appears to create a sylvania , WILLIAM FINDLAY ; from North Caro- lína , JOHN BAPTIST ASHE ; and from Georgia , ABRAHAM BALDWIN ; appeared , produced ...
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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.