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... continued to be performed upon this understanding , and no further correspondence took place until April 9 , 1852 , when the Postmaster General wrote to Mr. Law , complaining that he did not dispatch the direct steamers on the days ...
... continued to be performed upon this understanding , and no further correspondence took place until April 9 , 1852 , when the Postmaster General wrote to Mr. Law , complaining that he did not dispatch the direct steamers on the days ...
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... continued to work , as understood between the parties , without other correspondence than such as related to schedules , until a correspondence occurred between Mr. Aspinwall , the con- tractor on the Pacific side , and the department ...
... continued to work , as understood between the parties , without other correspondence than such as related to schedules , until a correspondence occurred between Mr. Aspinwall , the con- tractor on the Pacific side , and the department ...
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... continued to this day . It is certain that the memorialists refused to perform the service without a distinct understanding that they claimed a compensation , the amount of which was to be submitted to the justice of Congress , and that ...
... continued to this day . It is certain that the memorialists refused to perform the service without a distinct understanding that they claimed a compensation , the amount of which was to be submitted to the justice of Congress , and that ...
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... continued as heretofore . I have notified the company's agent in New Orleans of the proposed change , and have requested him to inform the postmaster there of it . I have the honor to be , very respectfully , your most obedient servant ...
... continued as heretofore . I have notified the company's agent in New Orleans of the proposed change , and have requested him to inform the postmaster there of it . I have the honor to be , very respectfully , your most obedient servant ...
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... continued as here- tofore , the only change being to substitute a direct semi - monthly line between Havana and Aspinwall for the present line between New Orleans and Aspinwall direct . I regret deeply that your company contemplates ...
... continued as here- tofore , the only change being to substitute a direct semi - monthly line between Havana and Aspinwall for the present line between New Orleans and Aspinwall direct . I regret deeply that your company contemplates ...
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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...