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... Azua is estimated at 10,000 , while an actual count , made a few years ago , showed that it contained only 7,750 . The present number is apparently still less . Los Llaños is set down at 3,000 ; but the military governor now estimates ...
... Azua is estimated at 10,000 , while an actual count , made a few years ago , showed that it contained only 7,750 . The present number is apparently still less . Los Llaños is set down at 3,000 ; but the military governor now estimates ...
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... Azua and the valley of the Yaqui , where rain is partly or wholly wanting , from topograph- ical causes . These lands can be made fertile by artificial irrigation . 5. The red - clay lands , mostly along the coast , underlaid by ...
... Azua and the valley of the Yaqui , where rain is partly or wholly wanting , from topograph- ical causes . These lands can be made fertile by artificial irrigation . 5. The red - clay lands , mostly along the coast , underlaid by ...
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... Azua . Almost every tropi- cal production would seem possible in a soil so rich and a climate so , genial . At a still higher point upon these mountains , the culture of cinchona , or Peruvian bark , can be made a profitable branch of ...
... Azua . Almost every tropi- cal production would seem possible in a soil so rich and a climate so , genial . At a still higher point upon these mountains , the culture of cinchona , or Peruvian bark , can be made a profitable branch of ...
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... Azua to Las Caobas . To Levi Guilamo , November 4 , 1870 , for constructing telegraph lines necessary in the republic . To Carlos Baez , May 18 , 1870 , for rent of salt - works at Bani . To Telesforo Volta , for salt - works at Beata ...
... Azua to Las Caobas . To Levi Guilamo , November 4 , 1870 , for constructing telegraph lines necessary in the republic . To Carlos Baez , May 18 , 1870 , for rent of salt - works at Bani . To Telesforo Volta , for salt - works at Beata ...
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... Azua as may be deemed desir- able from an agricultural point of view , and report thereupon to the commission . 6. That Professor Newcomb be requested to examine and report con- cerning the sanitary condition of the city of Santo ...
... Azua as may be deemed desir- able from an agricultural point of view , and report thereupon to the commission . 6. That Professor Newcomb be requested to examine and report con- cerning the sanitary condition of the city of Santo ...
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American annexation Anvic August Azua Baez Bani bank BUENAVENTURA BAEZ bushels Cabral cadastre Captain cent cereal channel span chronometer Cibao Cincinnati city of Santo claim coal coast commerce commission commissioners communes congrès Congress construction cultivation Curaçoa Department district Dominican government Dominican Republic Fabens favor February feet above low Fort Adams Fort Yukon grant Hayti Haytians here?-A honor hundred inhabitants interior island July land low water ment miles Monte Cristi mountains mouth nations native navigation Newport Neyba nombre Nulato observations officers Ohio River ont été piers population port portion present President province Puerto Plata railroad rapports resolution riprap road Samana Samana Bay Santiago Santo Domingo City savannas Secretary Senate sent shore side soil Spaniards Spanish statistique steamers strat tion town United valley Vega village yards Yukon River Yuna
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Page 73 - An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes,' approved August 6, 1861, and a copy of which act I herewith send you.
Page 212 - Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 29 And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 1 - During the last session of Congress a treaty for the annexation of the Republic of San Domingo to the United States failed to receive the requisite two-thirds vote of the Senate. I was thoroughly convinced then that the best interests of this country, commercially and materially, demanded its ratification. Time has only confirmed me in this view. I now firmly believe that the moment it is known that the United States...
Page 9 - Whereas, for the reasons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath their intention to become citizens...
Page 1 - To the Senate and House of Representatives : I have the honor to submit herewith to the two Houses of Congress the report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of joint resolution approved January 12, 1871.
Page 30 - That the bridges across the Ohio river at Wheeling, in the state of Virginia, and at Bridgeport, in the state of Ohio, abutting on Zane's Island, in said river, are hereby declared to be lawful structures in their present positions and elevations, and shall be so held and taken to be, anything in the law or laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 5 - ... if the spirit of evil is, before the final consummation of things, to be cast down from his dominion over men and bound in the chains of a thousand years, the foretaste here of man's eternal felicity, then this system of common instruments to accomplish all the changes of social and friendly commerce will furnish the links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most distant regions; the metre will surround the globe in use as well as in multiplied extension, and one language of weights and...
Page 13 - ... any officer, civil or military, or against any other person for any arrest or imprisonment made or other trespasses or wrongs done or committed or any act omitted to be done at any time during the present rebellion by virtue or under color of any authority derived from or exercised by or under the President of the United States or any act of Congress, and the defendant shall at the time of entering his appearance in...
Page 67 - ... and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War, the bridge...
Page 67 - ... no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph purposes across said bridge.