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11 o'clock to-morrow 15th August 1st Lieutenant 2d Lieutenant adjourned to 11 advise and consent affirmative agreeably amendments Anderson Bibb of Georgia bill or otherwise bill pass bill was read Bledsoe Chace Charles Cutts collection district consider and report consideration of executive consideration the message Daggett Dana day were postponed Ensign entitled An act following written message Fromentin further consideration thereof Gaillard Giles Gilman Goldsborough Gore Horsey House of Representatives Howell Infantry instant JAMES MADISON John Kentucky Lacock Magruder Mason Messrs Mississippi territory Missouri territory Monday Morrow motion nominations respectively North Carolina notify the House o'clock to-morrow morning Ordered read a third read the second regiment relief report thereon Representatives accordingly request the concur Resolved resumed the consideration Second Lieutenant second reading Secretary notify Secretary request Senate adjourned Senate resumed Senators present Smith Tait thereon by bill Third Lieutenant Thomas United Varnum vessels vice voted William Worthington yeas and nays
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Page 53 - Congress above mentioned and an 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.
Page 318 - 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 6 - 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 that Congress is now ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.
Page 34 - The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war is more and more developed by experience. Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance, but the armies in our neighborhood with which our own are contending derive from our ports and outlets a subsistence attainable with difficulty, if at all, from other sources. Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and...
Page 216 - Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate such information as he may possess...
Page 152 - In pursuance of the act, entitled " An act supplemental to the act, entitled 'An act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory...
Page 288 - An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose...
Page 65 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 400 - France, or of any of her colonies or dependencies, or being of the growth, produce or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, or of any of the colonies or dependencies...
Page 18 - ... for the abundance which overspreads our land, and the prevailing health of its inhabitants; for the preservation of our internal tranquillity, and the stability of our free institutions, and, above all, for the light of divine truth and the protection of every man's conscience in the enjoyment of it.