1849-1861Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1897 |
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... Treasury for this purpose , nor do I believe that such an appropriation is necessary . Private enterprise , if properly protected , will complete the work should it prove to be feasi- ble . The parties who have procured the charter from ...
... Treasury for this purpose , nor do I believe that such an appropriation is necessary . Private enterprise , if properly protected , will complete the work should it prove to be feasi- ble . The parties who have procured the charter from ...
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... Treasury for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June last were , in cash , $ 48,830,097.50 , and in Treasury notes funded $ 10,833,000 , making an aggregate of $ 59,663,097.50 ; and the expendi- tures for the same time were , in cash ...
... Treasury for the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June last were , in cash , $ 48,830,097.50 , and in Treasury notes funded $ 10,833,000 , making an aggregate of $ 59,663,097.50 ; and the expendi- tures for the same time were , in cash ...
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... Treasury . No direct aid has been given by the General Government to the im- provement of agriculture except by the expenditure of small sums for the collection and publication of agricultural statistics and for some chemical analyses ...
... Treasury . No direct aid has been given by the General Government to the im- provement of agriculture except by the expenditure of small sums for the collection and publication of agricultural statistics and for some chemical analyses ...
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... Treasury . I confidently believe that a change may safely be made reducing all single - letter postage to the uniform rate of 5 cents , regardless of distance , without thereby imposing any greater tax on the Treasury than would ...
... Treasury . I confidently believe that a change may safely be made reducing all single - letter postage to the uniform rate of 5 cents , regardless of distance , without thereby imposing any greater tax on the Treasury than would ...
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... Treasury to effect any object contemplated by it . It yields protection to the capitalists who may undertake to construct any canal or railway across the Isthmus , commencing in the southern part of Mexico and terminating in the ...
... Treasury to effect any object contemplated by it . It yields protection to the capitalists who may undertake to construct any canal or railway across the Isthmus , commencing in the southern part of Mexico and terminating in the ...
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Էջ 398 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Էջ 70 - Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Էջ 69 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title, and rights of Mexican citizens or acquire those of citizens of the United States; but they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans shall be considered to have elected...
Էջ 428 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Էջ 631 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Էջ 76 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Էջ 621 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Էջ 621 - ... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...
Էջ 363 - California," and of the twelfth section of the act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled " An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes...
Էջ 389 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.