A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1907, Volume 3Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1908 |
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... expected of the Government , an agent was dispatched to England secretly to negotiate with the holders of the public debt in Europe and induce them by the offer of an equal or higher interest than that paid by the Government to hold ...
... expected of the Government , an agent was dispatched to England secretly to negotiate with the holders of the public debt in Europe and induce them by the offer of an equal or higher interest than that paid by the Government to hold ...
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... expected when the moneys of the United States were directed to be placed in that bank that they would be put under the control of one man empowered to spend millions without rendering a voucher or specifying the object ? Can they be ...
... expected when the moneys of the United States were directed to be placed in that bank that they would be put under the control of one man empowered to spend millions without rendering a voucher or specifying the object ? Can they be ...
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... should also be enjoined upon any banks which may be employed that it will be expected of them to facilitate domestic exchanges for M P - VOL III - 2 the benefit of internal commerce ; to grant all reasonable Andrew Jackson 17.
... should also be enjoined upon any banks which may be employed that it will be expected of them to facilitate domestic exchanges for M P - VOL III - 2 the benefit of internal commerce ; to grant all reasonable Andrew Jackson 17.
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... expected he has not yet arrived in this country . With Peru no treaty has yet been formed , and with Bolivia no diplo- matic intercourse has yet been established . It will be my endeavor to encourage those sentiments of amity and that ...
... expected he has not yet arrived in this country . With Peru no treaty has yet been formed , and with Bolivia no diplo- matic intercourse has yet been established . It will be my endeavor to encourage those sentiments of amity and that ...
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... expected in future years upon the reduced tariff of duties . The shortened credits on revenue bonds and the cash duties on woolens which were introduced by the act of 1832 , and took effect on the 4th of March last , have brought large ...
... expected in future years upon the reduced tariff of duties . The shortened credits on revenue bonds and the cash duties on woolens which were introduced by the act of 1832 , and took effect on the 4th of March last , have brought large ...
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Page 55 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 262 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 63 - Resolved., That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 141 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 4 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 431 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 190 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 178 - Michigan : and whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states . in . all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 222 - To the House of Representatives: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of War, conveying the information called for by the House in its resolution of yesterday, concerning the Cherokee treaty recently ratified.
Page 209 - If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.