Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ...Gales & Seaton, 1835 |
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... persons and property of their citizens . War was not declared by either nation . And , in the convention of 30th September , 1800 , the claims on both sides were , by the second article , re- garded as subsisting and valid . This would ...
... persons and property of their citizens . War was not declared by either nation . And , in the convention of 30th September , 1800 , the claims on both sides were , by the second article , re- garded as subsisting and valid . This would ...
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... persons whose claims were not acknowledged by France to be legitimate . Citizen Pichon , the French minister , wrote that cases of capture by the French West India cruisers are in- cluded in the fourth article of the treaty , and are ...
... persons whose claims were not acknowledged by France to be legitimate . Citizen Pichon , the French minister , wrote that cases of capture by the French West India cruisers are in- cluded in the fourth article of the treaty , and are ...
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... persons who might be interested against them , and who might place them under real ob- ligations to pay for what was really no consideration at all . It is said that " claims precisely circumstanced like these , have been pressed upon ...
... persons who might be interested against them , and who might place them under real ob- ligations to pay for what was really no consideration at all . It is said that " claims precisely circumstanced like these , have been pressed upon ...
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... persons , including Colonel Eugene by his connexion with Americans . He would proceed Leitensdorfer , ) dismounted , and embarked in the boats . with the case of the petitioner . Dropped at Syracuse The marines followed with the ...
... persons , including Colonel Eugene by his connexion with Americans . He would proceed Leitensdorfer , ) dismounted , and embarked in the boats . with the case of the petitioner . Dropped at Syracuse The marines followed with the ...
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... persons making entry of public lands , requiring of them to swear that they had been upon the lands which they proposed to enter , and there was no one there who possessed a right of pre- emption . This was a regulation calculated to ...
... persons making entry of public lands , requiring of them to swear that they had been upon the lands which they proposed to enter , and there was no one there who possessed a right of pre- emption . This was a regulation calculated to ...
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Page 667 - 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 87 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 277 - California, and of the 12th section of the Act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Page 539 - That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid as part of said Constitution, namely: "ARTICLE — . "SECTION 1.
Page 143 - It shall likewise be lawful for the citizens aforesaid to sail with the ships and merchandise before mentioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports, and havens of those who are enemies of both or either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, not only directly from the places of the enemy before mentioned to neutral places, but also from one place belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction...
Page 121 - ... all which shall be wholly reckoned among free goods; as likewise all other merchandises and things which are not comprehended, and particularly mentioned in the foregoing enumeration of contraband goods...
Page 121 - States their liberty, sovereignty and independence, absolute and unlimited, as well in matters of government as commerce, and also their possessions, and the additions or conquests that their confederation may obtain during the war, from any of the dominions now, or heretofore possessed by Great Britain in North America...
Page 123 - ... although the whole lading or any part thereof, should appertain to the enemies of either, contraband goods being always excepted. It is also agreed, in like manner, that the same liberty be extended to persons who are on board a free ship...
Page 143 - It shall be lawful for all and singular the Subjects of the most Christian King and the Citizens People and Inhabitants of the said United States to sail with their Ships with all manner of Liberty and Security; no distinction being made, who are the Proprietors of the Merchandizes laden thereon, from any Port to the places of those who now are or hereafter shall be at Enmity with the most Christian King or the United States.
Page 443 - And the use of all of these terms, 'treaty', 'agreement', 'compact', show that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to...