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 MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1854 - United States |
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... thought , consistent now with our character , and the situation of our country , that our jurisdiction should not be con- fined to a marine league . Very often , when our vessels were coasting and passing the headlands , Mr. CHACE ...
... thought , consistent now with our character , and the situation of our country , that our jurisdiction should not be con- fined to a marine league . Very often , when our vessels were coasting and passing the headlands , Mr. CHACE ...
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... thought it well to leave that concern where it was ; and , as to the trade with them , he hardly knew what it was ; he should object , however , to appropri- ating any more money for Indian trade . Rela- tive to the concerns of the ...
... thought it well to leave that concern where it was ; and , as to the trade with them , he hardly knew what it was ; he should object , however , to appropri- ating any more money for Indian trade . Rela- tive to the concerns of the ...
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... thought or two in reply to some of the observations of the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania , ( Mr. LACOCK . The bill proposes to set apart and pledge as a fund $ 1,500,000 , to be received for granting a charter to the National ...
... thought or two in reply to some of the observations of the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania , ( Mr. LACOCK . The bill proposes to set apart and pledge as a fund $ 1,500,000 , to be received for granting a charter to the National ...
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... thought would not , be satisfied with this nom- ' shall by law direct . " The bill , therefore , in inal saving of their rights . If they should be , it terms , admits the right of a State to an agency would in his view lessen the ...
... thought would not , be satisfied with this nom- ' shall by law direct . " The bill , therefore , in inal saving of their rights . If they should be , it terms , admits the right of a State to an agency would in his view lessen the ...
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... thought it proper that proceedings relative to claims under that part of the act should be suspended until Congress should have an opportunity of defining , more precise- ly , the cases contemplated by them . With that view I now ...
... thought it proper that proceedings relative to claims under that part of the act should be suspended until Congress should have an opportunity of defining , more precise- ly , the cases contemplated by them . With that view I now ...
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adopted amendment appointed Army authorizing BARBOUR bill entitled bill or otherwise bill was read British Carolina citizens colonies Commissioner committed Committee of Claims Compensation Law Congress consider and report Constitution Department district duty election Electors engrossed entitled An act establish Executive expediency favor FORSYTH Fromentin Goldsborough Government Hampshire honorable gentleman House of Representatives Hugh Nelson instructed to inquire JANUARY Jeremiah Nelson Kentucky LACOCK last session Legislature Massachusetts measure ment military militia Mississippi Territory mittee motion nation navigation North Carolina object officers opinion passed payment Pennsylvania ports praying PRESIDENT reported principle proposed Public Lands question read a third read the second relief repeal report thereon reported a bill resolution Resolved respect resumed the consideration Rufus Easton Senate resumed six dollars Spain Territory thereof was postponed thereto tion Treasury United vessels Virginia vote Whole William William Maclay
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Page 821 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Page 259 - House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make to them; and Mr.
Page 521 - ... vessel shall not be employed by such owners to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district? or people, with whom the United States are at peace.
Page 193 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Page 251 - ... capital which nourishes our manufactures should be domestic ; as its influence in that case, instead of exhausting, as it may do in foreign hands, would be felt advantageously on agriculture and every other branch of industry. Equally important is it to provide at home a market for our raw materials, as, by extending the competition, it will enhance the price, and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets.
Page 163 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 85 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 239 - to provide for the common defence and general welfare," to cases which are to be provided for by the expenditure of money, would still leave within the legislative power of congress all the great and most important measures of government; money being the ordinary and necessary means of carrying them into execution.
Page 21 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 303 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...