Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1 |
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... all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States was unlawful . ( U : S. Rev. Stat . , sec . 5301. ) As against the United States Government , therefore , the ...
... all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States was unlawful . ( U : S. Rev. Stat . , sec . 5301. ) As against the United States Government , therefore , the ...
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1st Session accompany bill H. R. affidavit agent alleged allowed amount appears appointed April Army August authority bales BOUTWELL Captain cents certificate charge claimant clerk command commission Commissioner Committee on Claims Committee on Pensions compensation Congress consideration contract copy cotton County Court of Claims damages December disability discharged dollars duty enlisted entitled evidence examination fact February FEBRUARY 21 filed following REPORT furnished Government granted honor horses House hundred Indians January July June land letter lieutenant March ment mustered officers opinion paid papers payment persons petitioner plantation pounds present President pro tempore printed quartermaster reason receipt received recommend referred the bill referred the petition regiment relief respectfully second lieutenant Secretary Secretary of War Senate soldiers Southern Pacific Railroad submitted the following taken testimony tion Treasury Department United United States Army Volunteers War Department Washington
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Page 9 - Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 94 - ... 34. As a general rule, the property belonging to churches, to hospitals, or other establishments of an exclusively charitable character, to establishments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies of learning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character — such property is not to be considered public property in the sense of paragraph 31 ; but it may be taxed or used when the public service may require...
Page 2 - President of the United States, the President of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being shall act as President of the United States until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.
Page 94 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 9 - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without...
Page 10 - Resolved, That such officers as are now in service, and shall continue therein to the end of the war, shall be entitled to receive the amount of five years...
Page 94 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 94 - President of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad ; and the odd sections of land hereby granted shall not be liable to sale, or entry or preemption before or after they are surveyed, except by said company, as provided in this act...
Page xx - An Act to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes, Approved July First, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.