Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress: afterw. The abridgment: message from the President ... Includes reports of the heads of departments , 1850-19151869 |
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... Land Office , Pension Office , Patent Office , and Indian Bureau . During the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1868 , six million six hundred and fifty - five thousand seven hundred acres of public land were disposed of . The entire cash ...
... Land Office , Pension Office , Patent Office , and Indian Bureau . During the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1868 , six million six hundred and fifty - five thousand seven hundred acres of public land were disposed of . The entire cash ...
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... land purchased by individ- uals .. expenses of United States courts . repayments for lands erroneously sold surveying the public lands , & c suppression of the slave trade ... deposits of individuals for expenses of survey of public ...
... land purchased by individ- uals .. expenses of United States courts . repayments for lands erroneously sold surveying the public lands , & c suppression of the slave trade ... deposits of individuals for expenses of survey of public ...
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... Land covering warrants .... Customs covering warrants Internal revenue appropriation warrants Miscellaneous warrants Aggregate number of warrants 560 1,155 1,500 2,457 3,325 11 , 116 4 , 168 638 1,502 305 2,363 145 2 , 017 61 26 11 42 ...
... Land covering warrants .... Customs covering warrants Internal revenue appropriation warrants Miscellaneous warrants Aggregate number of warrants 560 1,155 1,500 2,457 3,325 11 , 116 4 , 168 638 1,502 305 2,363 145 2 , 017 61 26 11 42 ...
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... Land Office , have been duly entered , revised , and the balances found thereon certified to the Register of the ... Land . - Embracing accounts of registers and receivers of land offices ; surveyors general nd their deputies ; and of ...
... Land Office , have been duly entered , revised , and the balances found thereon certified to the Register of the ... Land . - Embracing accounts of registers and receivers of land offices ; surveyors general nd their deputies ; and of ...
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... land division . " " During the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1868 , 915 bounty land claims , under the acts of Congress of September 28 , 1850 , and March 3 , 1855 , have been examined and returned to the Commissioner of Pensions under ...
... land division . " " During the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1868 , 915 bounty land claims , under the acts of Congress of September 28 , 1850 , and March 3 , 1855 , have been examined and returned to the Commissioner of Pensions under ...
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Page 106 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Page 318 - Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate...
Page 315 - It shall be the duty of the marshal of each district to attend the district and circuit courts when sitting therein, and to execute throughout the district all lawful precepts directed to him and issued under the authority of the United States; and he shall have power to command all necessary assistance in the execution of his duty.
Page 129 - An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States...
Page 313 - February 28, 1795, provided that 'in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States as may be applied for as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Page 23 - 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 amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 17 - I last year entered into a treaty with the King of Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, on the best terms then attainable, and with the express consent of the people of those islands. This treaty still remains under consideration in the Senate. A new convention has been entered into with Denmark, enlarging the time fixed for final ratification of the original treaty.
Page 11 - ... and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Our own history has recorded for our instruction enough, and more than enough, of the demoralizing tendency, the injustice, and the intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well disposed of a degraded paper currency authorized by law or in any way countenanced by government.
Page 827 - Utah, bounded on the north by Idaho and Wyoming, on the east by Colorado, and...
Page 20 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.