Annals of the Congress of the United States, Parte2Gales and Seaton, 1811 |
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Página 1231
... Secretary of the Treasury be di- rected to lay before this House a statement showing the quota payable by each State of the direct tax laid by the act , entitled " An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States ; " the ...
... Secretary of the Treasury be di- rected to lay before this House a statement showing the quota payable by each State of the direct tax laid by the act , entitled " An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States ; " the ...
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... Secretary of War , addressed to the Commit- tee on Indian Affairs , but on which they had not conceived it within their province to act . He had understood that the chairman ( Mr. McKɛɛ ) had proposed to refer it to the Committee of Com ...
... Secretary of War , addressed to the Commit- tee on Indian Affairs , but on which they had not conceived it within their province to act . He had understood that the chairman ( Mr. McKɛɛ ) had proposed to refer it to the Committee of Com ...
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... Secretary of the Treasury that , under the law of 1803 , he had no discretion given him to refuse the payment of the bills whenever presented , which had not yet been done , and there was still an op- portunity to prevent their payment ...
... Secretary of the Treasury that , under the law of 1803 , he had no discretion given him to refuse the payment of the bills whenever presented , which had not yet been done , and there was still an op- portunity to prevent their payment ...
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... Secretary of the Navy be authorized to make an experiment of the same . The report was read and ordered to lie on the YEAS - Willis Alston , jun . , Ezekiel Bacon , John Baker , William W. Bibb , Abijah Bigelow , Harmanus Bleecker ...
... Secretary of the Navy be authorized to make an experiment of the same . The report was read and ordered to lie on the YEAS - Willis Alston , jun . , Ezekiel Bacon , John Baker , William W. Bibb , Abijah Bigelow , Harmanus Bleecker ...
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... Secretary of the said department , in such branches of the business as the said Secretary may direct . And the senior Assist- of Secretary for the Department of War , during the ant Secretary shall perform and discharge the duties ...
... Secretary of the said department , in such branches of the business as the said Secretary may direct . And the senior Assist- of Secretary for the Department of War , during the ant Secretary shall perform and discharge the duties ...
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Página 1629 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Página 1787 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 1715 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Página 1625 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Página 1353 - An Act to establish an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of War...
Página 1627 - Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert.
Página 1713 - British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects, in such cases, be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right...
Página 1201 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 1625 - ... vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign which falls within the definition of war.
Página 1629 - ... them protection. We behold our vessels freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets...