The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volume 1Gales and Seaton, 1853 - United States |
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... petition of the Di- Message of the 5th instant , the translation of them be - rectors of the Washington Canal Company , pray- ing not then completed . NOVEMBER 7 , 1811 . JAMES MADISON . The Message and letters therein referred to were ...
... petition of the Di- Message of the 5th instant , the translation of them be - rectors of the Washington Canal Company , pray- ing not then completed . NOVEMBER 7 , 1811 . JAMES MADISON . The Message and letters therein referred to were ...
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... petition was read , and referred to a select com- mittee , to consider and report thereon by bill or otherwise . Messrs . TAIT , REED , and CAMPBELL , of Ohio , were appointed the Committee . MONDAY , November 25 . NOVEMBER , 1811 . and ...
... petition was read , and referred to a select com- mittee , to consider and report thereon by bill or otherwise . Messrs . TAIT , REED , and CAMPBELL , of Ohio , were appointed the Committee . MONDAY , November 25 . NOVEMBER , 1811 . and ...
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... petition of Thomas Brown , a citizen of Portsmouth , in New Hamp- shire , stating that the ship General Eaton , of which he was owner , sailed from London on the 27th November , 1810 , and from the Downs on the 4th December following ...
... petition of Thomas Brown , a citizen of Portsmouth , in New Hamp- shire , stating that the ship General Eaton , of which he was owner , sailed from London on the 27th November , 1810 , and from the Downs on the 4th December following ...
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... petition of Char- lotte Hazen , relict of the late Brigadier General Moses Hazen , praying a grant of land to her as a Canadian refugee , for reasons stated at large in the petition ; which was read , and referred to a select committee ...
... petition of Char- lotte Hazen , relict of the late Brigadier General Moses Hazen , praying a grant of land to her as a Canadian refugee , for reasons stated at large in the petition ; which was read , and referred to a select committee ...
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... petition of Charles Whitlow , nurseryman and botanical collector , stating that he has discovered a native vegetable , which possesses , in the highest degree , the quali- ties of flax and hemp , and praying that , in con- sideration of ...
... petition of Charles Whitlow , nurseryman and botanical collector , stating that he has discovered a native vegetable , which possesses , in the highest degree , the quali- ties of flax and hemp , and praying that , in con- sideration of ...
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Page 433 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 127 - An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,
Page 41 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.
Page 463 - British usurpation has not been more warmly cherished by these great men and their compatriots ; not more by Washington, Hancock, and Henry, than by Chatham and his illustrious associates in the British Parliament. It ought to be remembered, too, that the heart of the English people was with us. It was a selfish and corrupt Ministry, and their servile tools, to whom we were not more opposed than they were.
Page 33 - an act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states according to the first enumeration,' and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections.
Page 757 - In pursuance of this authority, the act of 1795 has provided "that whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the state or states most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his order for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia...
Page 83 - States, suspended by this act, and by the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed with the nation so doing.
Page 191 - States, and leave a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age. such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death...
Page 279 - States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels which are, or which shall be employed in the service of the United States, to subdue, seize and take any armed French vessel, which shall be found within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, or elsewhere, on the high seas...
Page 185 - An Act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state...