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... Pacific coast . There are a few of the other arsenals , which from their locations , are no longer useful for military purposes , and these should be sold , and the proceeds applied to enlarging the means of fabrication at the four ...
... Pacific coast . There are a few of the other arsenals , which from their locations , are no longer useful for military purposes , and these should be sold , and the proceeds applied to enlarging the means of fabrication at the four ...
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... Pacific mails , for which they ask a just remuneration . The service for which they claim an equitable recompense is the transportation of a mail direct between New York and Chagres , com- mencing in 1851 , and between New Orleans and ...
... Pacific mails , for which they ask a just remuneration . The service for which they claim an equitable recompense is the transportation of a mail direct between New York and Chagres , com- mencing in 1851 , and between New Orleans and ...
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... Pacific was only secondary . This is shown from the fact that while the service to Havana and New Orleans was twice monthly , the same act authorized a service on the Pacific ( Panama to Oregon ) of only once monthly , and allowed that ...
... Pacific was only secondary . This is shown from the fact that while the service to Havana and New Orleans was twice monthly , the same act authorized a service on the Pacific ( Panama to Oregon ) of only once monthly , and allowed that ...
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... Pacific , was a facility and benefit which the government owed to those great commercial and domestic interests that furnished the basis for the correspondence which paid tribute to the government . The service , therefore , was ...
... Pacific , was a facility and benefit which the government owed to those great commercial and domestic interests that furnished the basis for the correspondence which paid tribute to the government . The service , therefore , was ...
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... Pacific side , and the department ; in the course of which a letter from the Postmaster General , dated May 31 , 1852 , and one from the Secretary of the Navy , of June 2 , copies of which were sent to Mr. Law , seem to have excited his ...
... Pacific side , and the department ; in the course of which a letter from the Postmaster General , dated May 31 , 1852 , and one from the Secretary of the Navy , of June 2 , copies of which were sent to Mr. Law , seem to have excited his ...
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5th and 20th A. G. Sloo accompany bill additional compensation additional expense additional service affirmative amendments annum Bigler BRADY California mails carrying the mails claim Collamer contract contractors Crittenden Davis direct line direct steamers Doolittle Douglas duties following REPORT GEORGE LAW Grimes Havana and Aspinwall Havana and Chagres Hunter inclose instant July June June 18 June 23 letter M. O. ROBERTS Mail Steamship Company memorialists ment Messrs N. K. HALL nays negative negative-yeas obedient servant Orleans and Aspinwall Orleans and Chagres Panama patent petitioner pinwall POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Postmaster Powell President proposition question to agree received referred reply respectfully Rice route rule-yeas Samuel F. B. Morse San Francisco Savannah schedule Secretary Secretary of War Senate Seward ships submitted the following Territory tion Toombs twice a month U. S. Mail Steamship ultimo UNITED STATES MAIL United States Navy voted Wade York and Aspinwall York and Chagres
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Page 11 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 1 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, " JOHN B. FLOYD, Secretary of War.
Page 19 - Cincinnati, for the transportation of the United States mail from New York to New Orleans, twice a month and back, touching at Charleston, (if practicable,) Savannah, and Havana; and from Havana to Chagres and back, twice a month.
Page 6 - State laws which conflict with the fugitive slave acts, or any other constitutional acts of Congress, or which in their operation impede, hinder, or delay the free course and due execution of any of said acts, are null and void by the plain provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Yet those State laws, void as they are, have given color to practices, and led to consequences which have obstructed the due administration and execution of acts of Congress, and especially the acts for the...