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... Estimating its value at $ 5 per acre , the additional reve- nue which will annually arise from this source under the present law , after the expiration of one and two years will be $ 52,292 26 , and an undiminish- ed augmentation from ...
... Estimating its value at $ 5 per acre , the additional reve- nue which will annually arise from this source under the present law , after the expiration of one and two years will be $ 52,292 26 , and an undiminish- ed augmentation from ...
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... estimates as they would become due for the remaining part of the year ; alledging that un- less a positive assurance was given that the money would be forthcoming to meet these estimates , the contractors would be forced to abandon ...
... estimates as they would become due for the remaining part of the year ; alledging that un- less a positive assurance was given that the money would be forthcoming to meet these estimates , the contractors would be forced to abandon ...
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... estimates on the canal as they became due , and the contractors propced to receive them at that rate , and hazard a sale of them on their own account , I felt constrained from a sense of duty towards them , and good faith on the part of ...
... estimates on the canal as they became due , and the contractors propced to receive them at that rate , and hazard a sale of them on their own account , I felt constrained from a sense of duty towards them , and good faith on the part of ...
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... estimated at $ 20,000 , ) and other causes . It is also known , that the amount to be received from the General Government for the School Fund , will , from the small quantity of public lands selling , be much less than the amount ...
... estimated at $ 20,000 , ) and other causes . It is also known , that the amount to be received from the General Government for the School Fund , will , from the small quantity of public lands selling , be much less than the amount ...
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... estimates of which are unpaid , supposed to amount altogether to about twelve hundred thousand dollars ; and the Governor instructs said commissioners to sell the same , in their discretion , on such terms only as shall secure the legal ...
... estimates of which are unpaid , supposed to amount altogether to about twelve hundred thousand dollars ; and the Governor instructs said commissioners to sell the same , in their discretion , on such terms only as shall secure the legal ...
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2d SESSION agent Alton Amo'nt of scrip April Bank of Illinois bill Board of Public branch canal bonds Canal Commissioners Carlin cent cial drafts committee contract contractors debt December Delafield Deposition dinary drafts directors duty estimate Fund Commissioner furnished Governor House hypothecate Illinois and Michigan Illinois river interest internal improvement January John Hogan John Wright Judge Young July June labor LEGIS Legislature letter loan Lockport London Meredosia Messrs Michigan Canal millions obedient servant paper payable Peoria Peoria county pounds sterling present President Railroad Read and laid received resolution respectfully revenue Reynolds river Rock river scrip issued Senate Sept Shawneetown sold special drafts Springfield statement sterling suspension THOMAS CARLIN THOMAS MATHER Thornton tion Total amount undersigned vote Wabash River William Wright Wright & Co York
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Page iv - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, by virtue hereof.
Page 182 - That no freeman shall be imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Page 120 - State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
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Page iv - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Page 277 - Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to the Legislature of Illinois. 93 pp., sewed. Vandalia, 1839. $35. CARMAN, Bliss. Low Tide on Grand Pre. Paperbound. Toronto, 1889. 1st ed., with name misspelled "Carmen.