A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 1Bureau of national literature, 1908 |
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Page 926
... authority vested in me by section four thousand two hundred and twenty - eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States , do hereby declare and proclaim that , the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the ...
... authority vested in me by section four thousand two hundred and twenty - eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States , do hereby declare and proclaim that , the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the ...
Page 1057
... authority to change the boundary lines of forest reserves by Executive proclamation was extended , by the aforesaid act of Con- gress , approved February seventh , nineteen hundred and five , to the lands thereby included in and made a ...
... authority to change the boundary lines of forest reserves by Executive proclamation was extended , by the aforesaid act of Con- gress , approved February seventh , nineteen hundred and five , to the lands thereby included in and made a ...
Page 1125
... authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution , do hereby declare and proclaim that the export of arms , ammunition and munitions of war of every kind , from any port in the United States or in Porto Rico to any port in the ...
... authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution , do hereby declare and proclaim that the export of arms , ammunition and munitions of war of every kind , from any port in the United States or in Porto Rico to any port in the ...
Page 1137
... authority to inspect books and papers , could accomplish much in preventing willful violations of the law . It would ... authorities . At present it occurs that large ship- ments of interstate traffic are controlled by concessions on ...
... authority to inspect books and papers , could accomplish much in preventing willful violations of the law . It would ... authorities . At present it occurs that large ship- ments of interstate traffic are controlled by concessions on ...
Page 1156
... authority vested in me by the joint resolution of the Congress to prevent the introduction of arms into the island ... authorities to secure the proper administra- tion of the customs , and therefore to secure the payment of just debts ...
... authority vested in me by the joint resolution of the Congress to prevent the introduction of arms into the island ... authorities to secure the proper administra- tion of the customs , and therefore to secure the payment of just debts ...
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Page 161 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 73 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty if the United States were suable...
Page 73 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 85 - MARYLAND. Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. VIRGINIA. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. NORTH CAROLINA. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Page 1134 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Page 85 - NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...
Page 1016 - An act to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United, States, relating to copyrights", that said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens...
Page 1016 - ... foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement...
Page 1058 - Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired...
Page 232 - I recommend to the consideration of Congress the seasonableness of a declaration that the United States could not see without serious inquietude any part of a neighboring territory in which they have in different respects so deep and so just a concern pass from the hands of Spain into those of any other foreign power.