The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volumen3Gales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... dollars . On the 30th of September , 1820 , it amounted to ninety - one millions nine hundred and ninety - three thousand eight hundred and eighty - three dollars , having been reduced in that interval , by payments , sixty - six ...
... dollars . On the 30th of September , 1820 , it amounted to ninety - one millions nine hundred and ninety - three thousand eight hundred and eighty - three dollars , having been reduced in that interval , by payments , sixty - six ...
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... dollars for each day's attendance , and six dollars for every twenty miles travel , instead of the compensation now allowed by said act , and that it be referred to a com- mittee to prepare and report a bill for altering and amending ...
... dollars for each day's attendance , and six dollars for every twenty miles travel , instead of the compensation now allowed by said act , and that it be referred to a com- mittee to prepare and report a bill for altering and amending ...
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... dollars per acre , and that the residue may revert to the United States ; and the memo- rials were read , and laid on the table . Mr. THOMAS , from the Committee on Public Lands , to whom was referred the petition of the Trustees of the ...
... dollars per acre , and that the residue may revert to the United States ; and the memo- rials were read , and laid on the table . Mr. THOMAS , from the Committee on Public Lands , to whom was referred the petition of the Trustees of the ...
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... dollars , and at the same time keep all the lands for which those dollars were given , together with all the improvements that have been made upon the lands . No , sir ; humanity , justice , and sound policy , equally for- bid it . As ...
... dollars , and at the same time keep all the lands for which those dollars were given , together with all the improvements that have been made upon the lands . No , sir ; humanity , justice , and sound policy , equally for- bid it . As ...
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... dollars each , which , divided into ten annual instalments , would be twelve dollars annum to be paid by each . Deduct one - half the debt , it would reduce the proportion , as before stated , to six dollars ; but strike off three ...
... dollars each , which , divided into ten annual instalments , would be twelve dollars annum to be paid by each . Deduct one - half the debt , it would reduce the proportion , as before stated , to six dollars ; but strike off three ...
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Admission of Missouri admitted Alabama amendment amount army authority bank bankrupt BARBOUR Baron de Kalb bill citizens clause Committee of Claims Committee on Public Congress constitution of Missouri court debt DECEMBER declared district dollars duty entitled An act establish expediency favor free negroes gentleman Government granted gress Holmes honorable House of Representatives JANUARY Johnson Judiciary Kentucky last session Legislature liberty Louisiana LOWNDES Massachusetts Matthew Lyon ment military militia Mississippi mittee motion nation negroes and mulattoes object officers opinion passed payment persons petition was read postponed praying presented the petition President principles privileges proceeded to consider proposed provisions Public Lands question read the third referred relief resolution Resolved Rhode Island Secretary Secretary of War Senate proceeded Senate resumed SMITH souri South Carolina stitution submitted Tennessee Territory tion Treasury Treaty of Ghent TRIMBLE Union United Virginia vote whole Williams York
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Página 539 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Página 59 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 667 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Página 771 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Página 413 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Página 719 - Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 105 - ... the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states ; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of -trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 483 - French, did then and there feloniously and willfully kill, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the state of New York and their dignity.
Página 57 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Página 771 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid...