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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... referred to the Committee on the Library . When the morning business had been disposed of— The Senate resumed the balloting for the remaining members of standing committees not yet filled up , and the result was as follows : Committee ...
... referred to the Committee on the Library . When the morning business had been disposed of— The Senate resumed the balloting for the remaining members of standing committees not yet filled up , and the result was as follows : Committee ...
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... referred , as moved by Mr. WEB- STER , to the Committee on Manufactures . BURNING OF THE POST OFFICE . Mr. ROBINSON presented the following resolution , and moved its immediate consideration : Resolved , That the Committee on the Post ...
... referred , as moved by Mr. WEB- STER , to the Committee on Manufactures . BURNING OF THE POST OFFICE . Mr. ROBINSON presented the following resolution , and moved its immediate consideration : Resolved , That the Committee on the Post ...
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... referred to the variouis standing committees . Several bills were introduced and appropriately re- ferred , as also a number of resolutions submitted for con sideration . TREASURY CIRCULAR . The Senate proceeded to the further ...
... referred to the variouis standing committees . Several bills were introduced and appropriately re- ferred , as also a number of resolutions submitted for con sideration . TREASURY CIRCULAR . The Senate proceeded to the further ...
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... referred to the high prices paid for every thing to prove that money was not scarce , except to those whose engagemnets compelled them to repair to the banks ; he referred to the rates of exchanges in the South and West to prove that ...
... referred to the high prices paid for every thing to prove that money was not scarce , except to those whose engagemnets compelled them to repair to the banks ; he referred to the rates of exchanges in the South and West to prove that ...
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... referred , as illustrative of some of the above loans on stocks or personal security : Reduction of Duties - Treasury Circular . Mr. CALHOUN said. SENATE . ] » * culation . " IV . Extract from the report of the commissioners ap- pointed ...
... referred , as illustrative of some of the above loans on stocks or personal security : Reduction of Duties - Treasury Circular . Mr. CALHOUN said. SENATE . ] » * culation . " IV . Extract from the report of the commissioners ap- pointed ...
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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...