Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the ... Session of the ... Congress, Volume 1; Volume 13; Volume 68Gales & Seaton, 1837 - Law |
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... quired by law . These seem to me to have been among the real motives which led to the adoption of that order . But one of the good effects which it was said this or- der would produce was , that it would prevent overissues of the banks ...
... quired by law . These seem to me to have been among the real motives which led to the adoption of that order . But one of the good effects which it was said this or- der would produce was , that it would prevent overissues of the banks ...
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... quired of all purchasers and for all quantities . I am very glad that a resolution to rescind this order has been thus early introduced ; and I am glad , too , since the resolution is to be opposed , that opposition comes early , in a ...
... quired of all purchasers and for all quantities . I am very glad that a resolution to rescind this order has been thus early introduced ; and I am glad , too , since the resolution is to be opposed , that opposition comes early , in a ...
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... quired , in order to prevent large and inconvenient accu- mulations in particular places , or in order to produce a due equality and just proportion , according to the pro- visions of said act . " The Secretary was bound , then ...
... quired , in order to prevent large and inconvenient accu- mulations in particular places , or in order to produce a due equality and just proportion , according to the pro- visions of said act . " The Secretary was bound , then ...
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... quired , year following year , to devise ways and means to meet current expenses . It would be far better , for the peace and prosperity of the nation , to be obliged to borrow annually , rather than be obliged to tax our inge- nuity ...
... quired , year following year , to devise ways and means to meet current expenses . It would be far better , for the peace and prosperity of the nation , to be obliged to borrow annually , rather than be obliged to tax our inge- nuity ...
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... quired for , or will no longer be applicable to them , amounting to $ 195,183 64 . I have the honor to be , very respectfully , your obe- dient servant , [ SENATE . importance , if it was to regulate the conduct of the States in that ...
... quired for , or will no longer be applicable to them , amounting to $ 195,183 64 . I have the honor to be , very respectfully , your obe- dient servant , [ SENATE . importance , if it was to regulate the conduct of the States in that ...
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Page 469 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 449 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 323 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 445 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct, in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and, if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 227 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 321 - And it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 273 - ... the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States on or before the fourth Monday in November next an authentic copy of the said act; upon the receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of the said State into this Union shall be considered as complete.
Page 245 - The Constitution of the United States declares that " no state shall pass any * » * law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Page 323 - States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. And whenever any of the said States shall have...
Page 323 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...