A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Including Also an Account of Banks, Manufactures and Internal Trade and Improvements |
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN AMERICAN TONNAGE American vessels amount annual average bank Britain British American Colonies British vessels British West Indies canal Canton cent Columbia commerce Congress Connecticut cotton Danish declared Delaware Denmark Denmark and Norway dollars Dolls Domestic produce Dutch West Indies duties East Indies England estimated Europe fish fishery Florida flour Foreign produce FOREIGN TONNAGE Foreign vessels forty four France French West Indies Georgia Hampshire Hanse Towns Holland hundred and sixty imports and exports Jersey lands Louisiana Madeira manufactures Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Territory millions Mississippi navigation Norway Ohio Pennsylvania period Portugal pounds President principally quantity rail road Rhode Island river Russia seven shew ships South Carolina Spain Spanish West Indies spermaceti sugar Sweden Swedish West Indies TABLE territory thousand tion tons Total trade Treasury treaty Trieste U. S. from U. S. United V.-CONTINUED VALUE OF EXPORTS Vermont Virginia whale Whither exported woollen York
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Page 332 - the Legislatures of those districts, or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil, by the United States in Congress assembled ; nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary, for securing the title in such soil, to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 37 - It is agreed, that the people of the United States, shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind, on the grand bank, and on all other banks of New* foundland ; also, in the gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places, in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used
Page 39 - to dry or cure fish, without the liberty of the proprietors of the ground. And by the same Convention, the United States renounce any liberty before enjoyed or claimed by them or their inhabitants, to take, dry or cure fish, on or within three marine miles, of any of
Page 331 - should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican states, which should become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states.
Page 32 - uniform system, in their commercial intercourse and regulations, might be necessary to their common interest and permanent harmony, and to report to the several States, such an act, relative to this great object, as, when unanimously ratified by them, would enable the United
Page 13 - it in our own way ? I can give you no directions ; you have made a noble bargain for yourselves, and I suppose you will make the most of it."* It cannot fail to appear strange, especially to those unacquainted with the arts of diplomacy, that the French government, in the third
Page 445 - were to be made in the bank or its branches, unless the Secretary of the Treasury should, at any time, order and direct otherwise ; in which case, he is immediately to lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons for such order. The bank was to pay a
Page 360 - comparably so qualified for the breeding of seamen, not only, by reason of the natural' industry of that people, but, principally, by reason of their cod and mackerel fisheries ; and in my opinion, there is nothing more prejudicial, and in prospect, more dangerous to any mother kingdom, than the increase of shipping in her colonies, plantations, or provinces.
Page 456 - Referring to the national bank, the message declared, that " both the constitutionality and expediency of the law creating this bank, are well questioned, by a large portion of our fellow citizens; and it must be admitted by all,
Page 21 - are precisely fixed by the Treaty of 1783, that the constitution expressly declares itself to be made, for the United States, I cannot help believing the intention was, to permit Congress to admit into the union, new States, which should be formed out of the territory, for