Harper's Encyclopędia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper, 1902 |
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... July 2 , 1864 23 , 1866 15 , 1868 March 5 , 1869 June 23 , 1870 Dec. 14 , 1871 .April 26 , 1875 . May 22 , 1876 March 12 , 1877 March 5 , 1881 Dec. 19 , 1881 foundland . Another French line was laid from Brest to 15 CABINET , PRESIDENT'S.
... July 2 , 1864 23 , 1866 15 , 1868 March 5 , 1869 June 23 , 1870 Dec. 14 , 1871 .April 26 , 1875 . May 22 , 1876 March 12 , 1877 March 5 , 1881 Dec. 19 , 1881 foundland . Another French line was laid from Brest to 15 CABINET , PRESIDENT'S.
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... French Atlantic Tele- born in New Orleans , Oct. 12 , 1844 ; was graph Company was formed , and the fol- educated in the public schools . In 1863- lowing year it laid a line from Brest , 65 he served in the Confederate army in France ...
... French Atlantic Tele- born in New Orleans , Oct. 12 , 1844 ; was graph Company was formed , and the fol- educated in the public schools . In 1863- lowing year it laid a line from Brest , 65 he served in the Confederate army in France ...
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... French line was laid from Brest to St. Pierre , an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence , in 1880 . The companies owning all these lines having formed a combina- tion and pooled their receipts , to keep up rates on the trans- mission of ...
... French line was laid from Brest to St. Pierre , an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence , in 1880 . The companies owning all these lines having formed a combina- tion and pooled their receipts , to keep up rates on the trans- mission of ...
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... He also collected a number of papers treating of the history of the Baptists in America . He died in Newport , R. I. , Jan. 26 , 1748 . St. Clement's . On the 25th they offered French ambassador 37 CALLAHAN - CALVERT.
... He also collected a number of papers treating of the history of the Baptists in America . He died in Newport , R. I. , Jan. 26 , 1748 . St. Clement's . On the 25th they offered French ambassador 37 CALLAHAN - CALVERT.
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... French ambassador to the United States the sacrifice of the mass , set up a huge in 1898. After the destruction of the Span- cross hewn from a tree , and knelt in sol- ish fleets in Manila Bay and off Santiago , emn devotion around it ...
... French ambassador to the United States the sacrifice of the mass , set up a huge in 1898. After the destruction of the Span- cross hewn from a tree , and knelt in sol- ish fleets in Manila Bay and off Santiago , emn devotion around it ...
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Page 338 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 310 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same, as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office — appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United...
Page 311 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 336 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 311 - Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any state should not raise men or should raise a smaller number than its quota and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 339 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 311 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 337 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 338 - All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution, as under the confederation. 2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Page 214 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela...