The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1867 |
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... carry out the treaty made so many years before . Toward the end of 1862 he wrote an autograph letter to Queen Victoria , requesting permission to send an em- bassy to England . This letter reached London in February , 1863 , and , for ...
... carry out the treaty made so many years before . Toward the end of 1862 he wrote an autograph letter to Queen Victoria , requesting permission to send an em- bassy to England . This letter reached London in February , 1863 , and , for ...
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... carry through the Confederation scheme , delegates from all the provinces went to Eng- land to confer with the Home Government , and it was understood that a bill concerning the projected Confederation would be laid before the Imperial ...
... carry through the Confederation scheme , delegates from all the provinces went to Eng- land to confer with the Home Government , and it was understood that a bill concerning the projected Confederation would be laid before the Imperial ...
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... carry vessels , without any other aid , 100 miles in twenty - four hours . Like the Vol- ga , it is , in places , subject in the dry season to shallows , and in the wet to inundations , but these inundations fertilize a wide extent of ...
... carry vessels , without any other aid , 100 miles in twenty - four hours . Like the Vol- ga , it is , in places , subject in the dry season to shallows , and in the wet to inundations , but these inundations fertilize a wide extent of ...
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... carry a double track , at present consists of a single - track tim- ber bridge , all except the draw spans being on the Howe plan . The trusses of the long spans are twenty - four feet high , and those of the short spans nine feet high ...
... carry a double track , at present consists of a single - track tim- ber bridge , all except the draw spans being on the Howe plan . The trusses of the long spans are twenty - four feet high , and those of the short spans nine feet high ...
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... carrying in parts as much as two tons of 20 per cent . ore to a fathom . The rock of the country is a talcoid mica ... carried on in the Chaudière division , in alluvial diggings on the Gilbert River , in the Seigniory of Rigaud ...
... carrying in parts as much as two tons of 20 per cent . ore to a fathom . The rock of the country is a talcoid mica ... carried on in the Chaudière division , in alluvial diggings on the Gilbert River , in the Seigniory of Rigaud ...
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Page 202 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 214 - ... the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 316 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 148 - 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 article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 196 - An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Page 128 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 14 - By the surrender the inhabitants passed under a temporary allegiance to the British government, and were bound by such laws, and such only, as it chose to recognize and impose.
Page 183 - Union, according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation in such {State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male...
Page 132 - I am satisfied that the mass of thinking men of the south accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which have heretofore divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections — slavery and State rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union — they regard as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal — arms — that man can resort to.
Page 127 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.