Acts Passed at the First Session of the 1st Congress - 3d Session of the 25th Congress, 2d Session of the 27th, 1st-2d of the 29th, 1st-2d of the 30th, 1st of the 31st, 1st-3d of the 37th, 2d of the 38th, 1st of the 39th, 2d-3d of the 40th 1st-3d of the 41st, 1st-3d of the 42d, 1st of the 43dRichard Folwell, 1811 |
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... adjusting the claims to land in the Kaskaskia district , in behalf of the United ( 5 ) An act authorising the appointment of an agent for the land office at Kaskaskia, and allowing compensation to the commissioners and clerk,
... adjusting the claims to land in the Kaskaskia district , in behalf of the United ( 5 ) An act authorising the appointment of an agent for the land office at Kaskaskia, and allowing compensation to the commissioners and clerk,
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... claims for land , and to oppose all such as he may deem fraudulent and unfounded . Sec . 2. And be it further enacted , That five hundred dollars shall be allowed to each of the said commissioners and to the clerk of the board , as ...
... claims for land , and to oppose all such as he may deem fraudulent and unfounded . Sec . 2. And be it further enacted , That five hundred dollars shall be allowed to each of the said commissioners and to the clerk of the board , as ...
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United States. SEC . 3. And be it further enacted , That all claim and demand of the United Interest of the proceeds of up . States to any monies arising from the sale of U. S. in the the ship Clara , sold in pursuance of a decree the ...
United States. SEC . 3. And be it further enacted , That all claim and demand of the United Interest of the proceeds of up . States to any monies arising from the sale of U. S. in the the ship Clara , sold in pursuance of a decree the ...
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... him satisfactory evidence of the va- lidity of their claims ; which warrants , with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied , shall , and may be located in the names of located . Where to be the holders or proprietors thereof ( 33 )
... him satisfactory evidence of the va- lidity of their claims ; which warrants , with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied , shall , and may be located in the names of located . Where to be the holders or proprietors thereof ( 33 )
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... claim of William and Elias Rector , at a sum not exceeding three dol- lars per mile , for the lines which bound each ... claims of the Kaskaskia district , or Illinois territory , claimed by virtue of French or British grants , legally ...
... claim of William and Elias Rector , at a sum not exceeding three dol- lars per mile , for the lines which bound each ... claims of the Kaskaskia district , or Illinois territory , claimed by virtue of French or British grants , legally ...
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aforesaid America appointed APPROVED bank Bank of Alexandria capital stock cents per month CHAPTER claims CLINTON commence commissioners compensation Congress assembled contingent expenses corporation court day of April day of March deemed dollars per month dred eighteen hundred election entitled An act established exceeding expense of stationery fifty cents Fire Prairie five dollars five hundred dollars Fort Clark further enacted hereby authorised House of Representatives hundred and eleven hundred and nine Indiana territory J. B. VARNUM JAMES MADISON JOHN GAILLARD JOHN POPE land office lars Leitensdorfer little chief Little Osage nation manner Mississippi territory paid payment port postmaster president and directors propriations Provided Proviso public lands purpose respectively river secretary Senate and House shares Speaker Specific ap stockholders surveyor tempore territory of Louisiana territory of Orleans thereof thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tract of land trade treasury treaty tribes United vote
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Page 312 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 189 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 326 - States, and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, or into the Gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said State, as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor, imposed by the said State.
Page 293 - Directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and make an election of Directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.
Page 211 - 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 articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution...
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Page 211 - ... of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them or either of them.
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