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Էջ 246 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an Act entitled ' an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Էջ 128 - Cowles has made payments in full the examination in this case has been hasty. I will revise the Books and papers again & if I should have overlooked anything or made any mistake I will correct it so soon as discovered. Respectfully Sir Yr. Obt. Servt RICHD. J. HAMILTON Cash, of the Brownsville BranchBank DEPARTMENT OF WAR Nov. 21st, 1827 Sir — I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your communication of the 29 ultimo. After advising you that I had called the attention of Gov. Cass as...
Էջ 145 - An act to grant a quantity of land to the State of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan...
Էջ 157 - BOOK 3 GOVERNORS' LETTERS 1828-1834 CHAPTER IV. EXECUTIVE LETTER-BOOK OF JOHN REYNOLDS, 1830-1834 VANDALIA, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER, 1830 GOVERNOR REYNOLDS Copy of a Letter to the Govr of Indiana. EXECUTIVE OFFICE VANDALIA, 6th Janry 1831 Sir — I have the honor to inclose to you a copy of a memorial of the General Assembly of this State, with a request that you lay the same before the Legislature of the State over which you preside. I hope that no difficulty may arise between two States that in fact,...
Էջ 224 - I have the honor to be, with great respect, your Excellency's most obedient, and most humble servant. TO JOHN PAGE.
Էջ 9 - ... office and for delivering up the records and other writings belonging to the said office whole safe and undefaced to your successor in office which Bond duly executed must be returned to this office,
Էջ 145 - ... sections in width on each side of said canal and reserving each alternate section to the United States, to be selected by the Commissioner of the Land Office, under the direction of the President of the United States, from one end of the said canal to the other; and the said lands shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature of the said State for the purpose aforesaid and no other...
Էջ 244 - Pennsylvania. in Senate. The committee on the state of the republic, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's message as relates to the resolutions of the State of Tennessee, and the report and resolutions thereon by the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, on the subject of the public lands of the United States...
Էջ 246 - Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this report to the President of the United States, the Governors of each of the States and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Էջ 236 - From all this, we are led to the conclusion that the time is rapidly approaching, if it has not already arrived, when the Atlantic and Pacific must join hands across the Isthmus. We have shown that there is no sea in the world which is possessed of such importance as this southern sea of ours ; that with its succession of harvests there is, from some one or other of its river basins, a crop always on the way to market...