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... Reference and Disposition -- Reconsid- eration thereof -- Change in the Opinion of Members - Bill to raise an additional Military Force -- Jacob Thompson's Amendment providing for the Appointment-- The Vote thereon - Senate Bill ...
... Reference and Disposition -- Reconsid- eration thereof -- Change in the Opinion of Members - Bill to raise an additional Military Force -- Jacob Thompson's Amendment providing for the Appointment-- The Vote thereon - Senate Bill ...
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... reference to the for- mer , he succeeded in keeping his own district unaltered in ter- ritory and number . On the subject of the currency , differ- ences began to manifest themselves , at the session of 1842 , in the sentiments of ...
... reference to the for- mer , he succeeded in keeping his own district unaltered in ter- ritory and number . On the subject of the currency , differ- ences began to manifest themselves , at the session of 1842 , in the sentiments of ...
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... reference . The subscribers will do no more than discharge an obvious duty to the body of which the com- mittee itself is merely the agent and organ , in submitting to the House , in the absence of any formal report , their own ...
... reference . The subscribers will do no more than discharge an obvious duty to the body of which the com- mittee itself is merely the agent and organ , in submitting to the House , in the absence of any formal report , their own ...
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... reference has been made , predicts , that among the grain and cattle - growing states emancipation will be easier and sooner than where products are grown which require much labor and manipulation ; and that in the order named it will ...
... reference has been made , predicts , that among the grain and cattle - growing states emancipation will be easier and sooner than where products are grown which require much labor and manipulation ; and that in the order named it will ...
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... , while in that condition , he might be able to attend to all his usual business without any symptoms of insanity being manifested , until some allusion or reference should be made to the particular STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS . 79.
... , while in that condition , he might be able to attend to all his usual business without any symptoms of insanity being manifested , until some allusion or reference should be made to the particular STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS . 79.
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Էջ 375 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Էջ 105 - It is agreed, that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall. together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Էջ 148 - Britannic majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Էջ 148 - Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream to the ocean, with free access into and through the said river or rivers, it being understood that all the usual portages along the line thus described shall, in like manner, be free and open.
Էջ 92 - European nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our interests that the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Էջ 177 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Էջ 82 - That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.
Էջ 106 - Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this Convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
Էջ 406 - Upon the call of the House, the names of the members shall be called over by the Clerk, and the absentees noted ; after which the names of the absentees shall...
Էջ 406 - When a member shall be discharged from custody and admitted to his seat, the House shall determine whether such discharge shall be with or without paying fees ; and in like manner, whether a delinquent member, taken into custody by a special messenger, shall, or shall not, be liable to defray the expense of such special messenger.