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... matter was again opened by a letter from the department to Mr. Aspinwall , followed by a corres- pondence between Mr. Law and the department , which , as it settled permanently and finally the contract or agreement upon which the direct ...
... matter was again opened by a letter from the department to Mr. Aspinwall , followed by a corres- pondence between Mr. Law and the department , which , as it settled permanently and finally the contract or agreement upon which the direct ...
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... matter , " is not , as the case is understood by the company , the actual attitude in which the matter stands . In my letter to the department of the 21st July , 1851 , embodying this proposition , it was alluded to as an experiment ...
... matter , " is not , as the case is understood by the company , the actual attitude in which the matter stands . In my letter to the department of the 21st July , 1851 , embodying this proposition , it was alluded to as an experiment ...
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... matter to the future decision of Congress . Meanwhile , each party being at liberty to discontinue it on a month's notice . Now that the arrangement is made and announced , both companies desire to carry it out ; and I beg leave ...
... matter to the future decision of Congress . Meanwhile , each party being at liberty to discontinue it on a month's notice . Now that the arrangement is made and announced , both companies desire to carry it out ; and I beg leave ...
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... matter . This view is distinctly recognized by Congress in the following provision of the original contract : " And it is further agreed by and between the parties aforesaid , that , on tender of proper compensation by the said ...
... matter . This view is distinctly recognized by Congress in the following provision of the original contract : " And it is further agreed by and between the parties aforesaid , that , on tender of proper compensation by the said ...
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... matter , either by a direct allowance from the Treasury , or by favoring any application which may be hereafter made elsewhere for increased compensation . It must , of course , be understood , also , that , as this order authorizes the ...
... matter , either by a direct allowance from the Treasury , or by favoring any application which may be hereafter made elsewhere for increased compensation . It must , of course , be understood , also , that , as this order authorizes the ...
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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...