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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... vessel , purchased at Sierra Leone in the year 1810 , by Samuel Richardet , master of the schooner Ariadne , to ... vessels , " and praying relief ; and the petition was read , and ordered to lie on the table . New York , Tait , and ...
... vessel , purchased at Sierra Leone in the year 1810 , by Samuel Richardet , master of the schooner Ariadne , to ... vessels , " and praying relief ; and the petition was read , and ordered to lie on the table . New York , Tait , and ...
Page 139
... vessel was burned at sea by a couple of French frigates that had sailed from France after the pretended abrogation of the French decrees , the captain of which told him he had orders to destroy all American vessels bound to or from a ...
... vessel was burned at sea by a couple of French frigates that had sailed from France after the pretended abrogation of the French decrees , the captain of which told him he had orders to destroy all American vessels bound to or from a ...
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... vessel from her own country in the English language , or has entered a port where an English vessel should be lying ... vessels of the enemy , it vessel ; remember , that it may be sunk without was because she was an enemy's ship under ...
... vessel from her own country in the English language , or has entered a port where an English vessel should be lying ... vessels of the enemy , it vessel ; remember , that it may be sunk without was because she was an enemy's ship under ...
Page 149
... vessels in the ports and harbors of the Uni- ted States , and all laws supplementary thereto , be , and they are hereby repealed , from and after the fourth day of March next . " The same gentleman has taken a review of past measures ...
... vessels in the ports and harbors of the Uni- ted States , and all laws supplementary thereto , be , and they are hereby repealed , from and after the fourth day of March next . " The same gentleman has taken a review of past measures ...
Page 151
... vessels which cleared out for ports in the United States , but which sailed to foreign ports . In sailing from port to port it is impossible to sail in a direct line , and it would have been equally impossible to have framed ...
... vessels which cleared out for ports in the United States , but which sailed to foreign ports . In sailing from port to port it is impossible to sail in a direct line , and it would have been equally impossible to have framed ...
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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...