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... letter from the Secretary for the Department of State , communicating , by order of the President of the United States , sundry papers , No. 1 to 18 , respecting the situation of affairs of the United States with France , Spain , and ...
... letter from the Secretary for the Department of State , communicating , by order of the President of the United States , sundry papers , No. 1 to 18 , respecting the situation of affairs of the United States with France , Spain , and ...
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... letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Senate , with the copy of a letter in answer to one from the Speaker of the House of Representatives , on the law providing compensation to the members of Congress ...
... letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Senate , with the copy of a letter in answer to one from the Speaker of the House of Representatives , on the law providing compensation to the members of Congress ...
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... letter communicated of Mr. BLOUNT , who was absent when it was read the first time : and who , on being requested to de- clare whether he was the author of this letter or not , observed , that he wrote a letter to Carey , but was unable ...
... letter communicated of Mr. BLOUNT , who was absent when it was read the first time : and who , on being requested to de- clare whether he was the author of this letter or not , observed , that he wrote a letter to Carey , but was unable ...
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... letter , to attend the Senate . The VICE PRESIDENT accordingly addressed to him the following letter , by the Doorkeeper : SENATE CHAMBER , July 5 , 1797 . SIR : You are hereby required to attend the Senate , in your place , without ...
... letter , to attend the Senate . The VICE PRESIDENT accordingly addressed to him the following letter , by the Doorkeeper : SENATE CHAMBER , July 5 , 1797 . SIR : You are hereby required to attend the Senate , in your place , without ...
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... letter , purport- ing to have been written by WILLIAM BLOUNT , Esquire , together with the papers accompanying the same , made a farther report ; which was read . Upon which , Mr. BLOUNT read in his place a declaration , | [ SENATE ...
... letter , purport- ing to have been written by WILLIAM BLOUNT , Esquire , together with the papers accompanying the same , made a farther report ; which was read . Upon which , Mr. BLOUNT read in his place a declaration , | [ SENATE ...
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Page 599 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 607 - States respectively, or to the people," therefore also the same act of Congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and entitled "An act in addition to the act entitled an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...
Page 631 - Hidalgo, and the said article and the thirty-third article of the treaty of Amity, commerce, and navigation...
Page 479 - An act to regulate trade, and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers.
Page 621 - I have finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States, with the reserve only, that I shall not be called into the field, until the army is in a situation to require my presence, or it becomes indispensable by the urgency of circumstances.
Page 55 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
Page 49 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Page 563 - An act more effectually to protect the commerce and coasts of the United States.
Page 593 - ... present shall agree, at the expense of such absent members, respectively, unless such excuse for non-attendance shall be made as the Senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient : and in that case the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund. And this rule shall apply as well to the first convention of the Senate, at the legal time of meeting, as to each day of the session, after the hour is arrived to which the Senate stood adjourned.
Page 55 - The diplomatic intercourse between the United States and France being at present suspended, the Government has no means of obtaining official information from that country. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the Executive Directory passed a decree on the...