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... contractor for carrying the mails between New York , New Orleans , Havana , and Chagres , praying compensation for extra mail facilities on that route , respectfully report : That they have considered the case presented in the memorial ...
... contractor for carrying the mails between New York , New Orleans , Havana , and Chagres , praying compensation for extra mail facilities on that route , respectfully report : That they have considered the case presented in the memorial ...
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... contractors steadily and persistently refused to assume the cost and responsibility of the service without a right to apply to Congress for a just recompense . This position of the company was clearly exhibited in their correspondence ...
... contractors steadily and persistently refused to assume the cost and responsibility of the service without a right to apply to Congress for a just recompense . This position of the company was clearly exhibited in their correspondence ...
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... contractors resume their running on the 11th and 26th of the month for Chagres and San Francisco , you will make up and send mails by the direct steamer on said days , as heretofore , under the original order . We have a memorandum from ...
... contractors resume their running on the 11th and 26th of the month for Chagres and San Francisco , you will make up and send mails by the direct steamer on said days , as heretofore , under the original order . We have a memorandum from ...
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... contractors for the outlay and hazard of the business , and yield a due profit and reward for their enterprise . It appears by the statement furnished to the committee , at their request , and which is annexed , ( see Appendix , marked ...
... contractors for the outlay and hazard of the business , and yield a due profit and reward for their enterprise . It appears by the statement furnished to the committee , at their request , and which is annexed , ( see Appendix , marked ...
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... contractor , shall convey any mail or mails of the United States which he may be required to convey on any steamship ... contractors might add to their line other vessels for commercial objects , and contemplated the payment of a just ...
... contractor , shall convey any mail or mails of the United States which he may be required to convey on any steamship ... contractors might add to their line other vessels for commercial objects , and contemplated the payment of a just ...
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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...