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... means any fluid produced by distillation of the substances named . It is more particularly applied by refiners to the dis- tilled oil before it is treated with chemicals . Naphtha is the first product of the distillation . It is of very ...
... means any fluid produced by distillation of the substances named . It is more particularly applied by refiners to the dis- tilled oil before it is treated with chemicals . Naphtha is the first product of the distillation . It is of very ...
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... means of woollen cloths , gathering the oil which rose to the surface . Occasionally , partiesboring for salt water were incommoded by the flow of a blackish substance , which proved to be crude petroleum ; and ordinary wells had also ...
... means of woollen cloths , gathering the oil which rose to the surface . Occasionally , partiesboring for salt water were incommoded by the flow of a blackish substance , which proved to be crude petroleum ; and ordinary wells had also ...
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... means used for the purpose . Many of these companies were fraudulent , and only entailed loss and disappointment on ... mean time prices began to advance abroad , owing to the increasing demand and diminished supply . An immense number ...
... means used for the purpose . Many of these companies were fraudulent , and only entailed loss and disappointment on ... mean time prices began to advance abroad , owing to the increasing demand and diminished supply . An immense number ...
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... means of ascertaining , but we learn that those shipments have recently fallen off . However , capital continues to be invested there , and it is not improbable that the region of the lower Danube will yet prove very productive . Italy ...
... means of ascertaining , but we learn that those shipments have recently fallen off . However , capital continues to be invested there , and it is not improbable that the region of the lower Danube will yet prove very productive . Italy ...
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... means to take freight for one stated price upon orders at Cork , either to United Kingdom or the continent , at the shipper's option . To the continent , on Cork orders , means to any port from Havre to Hamburg , both included . Let us ...
... means to take freight for one stated price upon orders at Cork , either to United Kingdom or the continent , at the shipper's option . To the continent , on Cork orders , means to any port from Havre to Hamburg , both included . Let us ...
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Page 12 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
Page 163 - ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 164 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 164 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 163 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 12 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 164 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 80 - Congress, and shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress...
Page 163 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 11 - Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight...