An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the Year ...American News Company, 1880 |
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... Popular Edition , handsome paper cover . Price , 25 cents . 2. Library Edition , with 100 additional pages ; elegantly bound in full scarlet cloth . Price , $ 1.50 . Copies of the former issues , 1878 and 1879 , may be had , bound , at ...
... Popular Edition , handsome paper cover . Price , 25 cents . 2. Library Edition , with 100 additional pages ; elegantly bound in full scarlet cloth . Price , $ 1.50 . Copies of the former issues , 1878 and 1879 , may be had , bound , at ...
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... popular in form , three legis- lative chambers being elected for four years , eight years , and for life . The president is elected for life by a ma- jority of the collective legislature . The administration belongs wholly to the ...
... popular in form , three legis- lative chambers being elected for four years , eight years , and for life . The president is elected for life by a ma- jority of the collective legislature . The administration belongs wholly to the ...
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... popular vote , the Vice - Presi- dent , who is Minister of the Interior , and three other cabinet officers . The Congress consists of a Senate of six- teen and a House of thirty members chosen by popular suffrage . The army has only ...
... popular vote , the Vice - Presi- dent , who is Minister of the Interior , and three other cabinet officers . The Congress consists of a Senate of six- teen and a House of thirty members chosen by popular suffrage . The army has only ...
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... popular vote ; salary , $ 5,000 . Reuben P. Boise , P. P. Prim , Associ ates ; term of each , 6 years ; also elected by popular vote ; salary of each , $ 5,000 . Clerk , P. H. D'Arcy . STATE CIRCUIT COURT . - C . B. Bellinger , J. F. ...
... popular vote ; salary , $ 5,000 . Reuben P. Boise , P. P. Prim , Associ ates ; term of each , 6 years ; also elected by popular vote ; salary of each , $ 5,000 . Clerk , P. H. D'Arcy . STATE CIRCUIT COURT . - C . B. Bellinger , J. F. ...
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NOTABLE EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1879. - Continued . TOTAL POPULAR VOTE AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS . NOTE . -. Minnesota , and Wisconsin killed 25 persons and destroyed many buildings July 1. Both Houses of Congress ad- journed , after an extra ...
NOTABLE EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1879. - Continued . TOTAL POPULAR VOTE AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS . NOTE . -. Minnesota , and Wisconsin killed 25 persons and destroyed many buildings July 1. Both Houses of Congress ad- journed , after an extra ...
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Page 384 - That it shall be lawful to transmit through the mail, free of postage, any letters, packages, or other matters relating exclusively to the business of the Government of the United States: Provided, That every such letter or package to entitle it to pass free shall bear over the words "Official business...
Page 349 - That for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress at the said city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them...
Page 72 - Every person, firm, association other than national bank associations, and every corporation, State bank, or State banking association, shall pay a tax of 10 per centum on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them.
Page 73 - ... but not made from grapes grown in the United States, and liquors, not made from grapes, currants, rhubarb, or berries grown in the United States...
Page 350 - While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon I was disengaged, for a summer or two, in examining all the principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable in every science.
Page 329 - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value...
Page 350 - ... perseverance and expense, with some knowledge of the bibliography of the subject, would again happen to be in concurrence. During the same period, and after my return to America, I was led to procure, also, whatever related to the duties of those in the high concerns of the nation. So that the collection, which I suppose is of between nine and ten thousand volumes, while it includes what is chiefly valuable in science and literature generally, extends more particularly to whatever belongs to...
Page 21 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 72 - State banking association, and also every national banking association, shall pay a like tax of ten per centum on the amount of notes of any person, firm, association other than a national banking association, or of any corporation, State bank, or State banking association, or of any town, city, or municipal corporation, used for circulation and paid out by them.
Page 73 - States, where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure, with its contents, shall not exceed, at the retail price or value, the sum of twenty-five cents, one cent.