The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United StatesGales and Seaton, 1849 |
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Сторінка 1523
... dollars and seventy- one cents ; for which there have been paid , in specie , one million six hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and thirty - six dollars and four cents , as will more particularly appear from the document marked ...
... dollars and seventy- one cents ; for which there have been paid , in specie , one million six hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and thirty - six dollars and four cents , as will more particularly appear from the document marked ...
Сторінка 1525
... dollars each , to be paid out of the con- tingent fund , to two of the clerks in Mr. Beckley's office , for their extra services . There is no other in- stance , since the commencement of the Government , of clerks receiving allowances ...
... dollars each , to be paid out of the con- tingent fund , to two of the clerks in Mr. Beckley's office , for their extra services . There is no other in- stance , since the commencement of the Government , of clerks receiving allowances ...
Сторінка 1533
... dollars , or twen- ty - five per centum advance on the original capital . The proceeds of the said sales , amounting to one million and eighty thousand dollars , have been received and placed in the Treasury of the United States , as ap ...
... dollars , or twen- ty - five per centum advance on the original capital . The proceeds of the said sales , amounting to one million and eighty thousand dollars , have been received and placed in the Treasury of the United States , as ap ...
Сторінка 1715
... dollars only were contemplated to be given , no great danger could surely be apprehended . The fires at New York , Baltimore , and Charles- ton . had been mentioned ; but what were the means of Savannah when compared with New York ? Not ...
... dollars only were contemplated to be given , no great danger could surely be apprehended . The fires at New York , Baltimore , and Charles- ton . had been mentioned ; but what were the means of Savannah when compared with New York ? Not ...
Сторінка 1725
... dollars they had yet got would be a mere bagatelle towards their immense loss . He hoped , therefore , the resolution would be agreed to . [ H. OF R. instances which had been adduced as precedents for the present case were not in point ...
... dollars they had yet got would be a mere bagatelle towards their immense loss . He hoped , therefore , the resolution would be agreed to . [ H. OF R. instances which had been adduced as precedents for the present case were not in point ...
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Abiel Foster Abraham Venable additional agreed amendment appointed appropriation believed bill cent citizens claim commerce Commissioners Committee Congress consideration debt Dempsey Burges direct tax duty entitled An act expense favor FEBRUARY foreign Francis Malbone frigates frontier Gabriel Christie GALLATIN gentleman from South Government granted HARPER Henry Glen hoped House of Representatives hundred indirect Isaac Coles JANUARY John Joshua Coit laid land last session Lyman ment Military Establishment Militia motion Nathan Bryan nation Naval necessary NICHOLAS object officers opinion paid passed petition present PRESIDENT proper proposed question referred regiments resolution Resolved respect revenue Robert Goodloe Harper salary Samuel Samuel Maclay Secretary Senate sent settlement SITGREAVES SMITH South Carolina supposed SWANWICK taken taxation thought thousand dollars tion Treasury Treaty United vote wanted Whole William William Craik William Hindman wished York
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Сторінка 1745 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Сторінка 1589 - ... for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms,' but as the only means of preserving our constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments...
Сторінка 1597 - To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force, organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war, by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party, as may first or last, leave no other option.
Сторінка 1565 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
Сторінка 1587 - If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable, it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
Сторінка 1599 - This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement; by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre, the results everywhere of individual skill and observation; and spreading them thence over the whole Nation. Experience accordingly has shewn, that they are very cheap Instruments, of immense National benefits.
Сторінка 1599 - I shall persevere in the endeavor to fulfill it to the utmost extent of what shall be consistent with a just and indispensable regard to the rights and honor of our country; nor will I easily cease to cherish the expectation that a spirit of justice, candor, and friendship on the part of the Republic will eventually insure success.
Сторінка 1599 - True it is, that our country, much to its honor, contains many seminaries of learning highly respectable and useful; but the funds upon which they rest are too narrow to command the ablest professors, in the different departments of liberal knowledge, for the institution contemplated, though they would be excellent auxiliaries.
Сторінка 1751 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall...
Сторінка 1587 - ... in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and my posterity, as well as them and theirs, I did not hesitate to express my approbation of it, on all occasions, in public and in private. It was not then, nor has been since, any objection to it, in my mind, that the Executive and Senate were not more permanent.