A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volume 9authority of Congress, 1897 |
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... increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people . The influences of religion have been multiplied and strengthened . The sweet offices of charity have greatly increased . The virtue of temperance is held in higher ...
... increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people . The influences of religion have been multiplied and strengthened . The sweet offices of charity have greatly increased . The virtue of temperance is held in higher ...
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... increase of the public debt . It is quite possible , I am sure , to effect the necessary reduction in our revenues without breaking down our protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry . The construction of a ...
... increase of the public debt . It is quite possible , I am sure , to effect the necessary reduction in our revenues without breaking down our protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry . The construction of a ...
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... increasing intercourse of our people is promoting mutual respect . We shall find unalloyed pleasure in the revelation ... increase . And when the harvests from the fields , the cattle from the hills , and the ores of the earth shall have ...
... increasing intercourse of our people is promoting mutual respect . We shall find unalloyed pleasure in the revelation ... increase . And when the harvests from the fields , the cattle from the hills , and the ores of the earth shall have ...
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... increased than reduced when the actual transactions are written up . The existence of so large an actual and ... increase of the bank- ing capital of favored localities and compels a cautious and gradual recall of the deposits to ...
... increased than reduced when the actual transactions are written up . The existence of so large an actual and ... increase of the bank- ing capital of favored localities and compels a cautious and gradual recall of the deposits to ...
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... increase was $ 599,224 , 193. The circula- tion per capita has increased about $ 5 during the time covered by the table referred to . The total coinage of silver dollars was on November 1 , 1889 , $ 343 , - 638,001 , of which ...
... increase was $ 599,224 , 193. The circula- tion per capita has increased about $ 5 during the time covered by the table referred to . The total coinage of silver dollars was on November 1 , 1889 , $ 343 , - 638,001 , of which ...
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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).