A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volume 9authority of Congress, 1897 |
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... appropriated to pay in full the Seminole Nation of Indians for all the right , title , interest , and claim which said ... appropriation to become oper- ative upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said nation specially ...
... appropriated to pay in full the Seminole Nation of Indians for all the right , title , interest , and claim which said ... appropriation to become oper- ative upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said nation specially ...
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... appropriation now made for that pur- pose would not advance the completion of the works beyond our ability to supply them with fairly effective guns . The security of our coast cities against foreign attacks should not rest altogether ...
... appropriation now made for that pur- pose would not advance the completion of the works beyond our ability to supply them with fairly effective guns . The security of our coast cities against foreign attacks should not rest altogether ...
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... appropriations . Care should be taken that the Government is not committed to the prosecution of works not of public and general advantage and that the relative usefulness of works of that class is not overlooked . So far as this work ...
... appropriations . Care should be taken that the Government is not committed to the prosecution of works not of public and general advantage and that the relative usefulness of works of that class is not overlooked . So far as this work ...
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... appropriated for ; but it is probable that when they are completed our list will only be in- creased to 42 — a gain of 5. The old wooden ships are disappearing almost as fast as the new vessels are added . These facts carry their own ...
... appropriated for ; but it is probable that when they are completed our list will only be in- creased to 42 — a gain of 5. The old wooden ships are disappearing almost as fast as the new vessels are added . These facts carry their own ...
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... appropriation act ) authorized the President to appoint three commissioners to negotiate with these Indians for the accomplishment of the same general purpose , and required that any agreements made should be submitted to Congress for ...
... appropriation act ) authorized the President to appoint three commissioners to negotiate with these Indians for the accomplishment of the same general purpose , and required that any agreements made should be submitted to Congress for ...
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Page 763 - Whenever, as in the case of small vessels under way during bad weather, the green and red side lights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept at hand, lighted and ready for use : and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than two points...
Page 506 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 338 - ... after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same, each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said period of ten years, or at any time afterward.
Page 770 - Where, by any of these rules, one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Page 764 - Pilot vessels when engaged on their station on pilotage duty shall not show the lights required for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all around the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed 15 minutes.
Page 693 - ... 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 768 - I am directing my course to port." Three short blasts to mean, "My engines are going at full speed astern." No VESSEL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TO NEGLECT PROPER PRECAUTIONS ART. 29. Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution that may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances...
Page 764 - A pilot vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a vessel to put a pilot on board may show the white light instead of carrying it at the masthead, and may, instead of the...
Page 772 - sailing vessels" and "vessels towed" on the fog horn. The words "prolonged blast" used in this article shall mean a blast of from four to six seconds' duration. A steam vessel shall be provided with an efficient whistle or siren, sounded by steam or by some substitute for steam, so placed that the sound may not be intercepted by any obstruction, and with an efficient fog horn, to be sounded by mechanical means, and also with an efficient bell.
Page 765 - ... feet lower than the forward light, another such light. The length of a vessel shall be deemed to be the length appearing in her certificate of registry. A vessel aground in or near a fairway shall carry the above light or lights and the two red lights prescribed by Article 4 (a).