A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 15Bureau of National Literature, Incorporated, 1917 |
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Page 6416
... hundred and twenty - four years of trial here its stability and security , and its efficiency as the best instrument of national de velopment and the best safeguard to human rights . When the Sixth Congress assembled in November , 1800 ...
... hundred and twenty - four years of trial here its stability and security , and its efficiency as the best instrument of national de velopment and the best safeguard to human rights . When the Sixth Congress assembled in November , 1800 ...
Page 6420
... hundred persons were crowded in its narrow compass . Two thousand native converts were assembled in a near- by palace under protection of the foreigners . Lines of defense were strengthened , trenches dug , barricades raised , and ...
... hundred persons were crowded in its narrow compass . Two thousand native converts were assembled in a near- by palace under protection of the foreigners . Lines of defense were strengthened , trenches dug , barricades raised , and ...
Page 6428
... hundred and one out of one hundred and twenty - one classes , and more completely covered the entire classification than those of any other nation . In total number they ranked next after those of France , and the attractive form in ...
... hundred and one out of one hundred and twenty - one classes , and more completely covered the entire classification than those of any other nation . In total number they ranked next after those of France , and the attractive form in ...
Page 6448
... hundred , to elect delegates to a convention to meet in the city of Havana at twelve o'clock noon on the first Monday of November , in the year nineteen hundred , to frame and adopt a consti- tution for the people of Cuba , and as a ...
... hundred , to elect delegates to a convention to meet in the city of Havana at twelve o'clock noon on the first Monday of November , in the year nineteen hundred , to frame and adopt a consti- tution for the people of Cuba , and as a ...
Page 6449
... comprehensive scheme of coast - defense fortifications which involved the outlay of something over one hundred million dollars This plan received the approval of the Congress , and 6449 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
... comprehensive scheme of coast - defense fortifications which involved the outlay of something over one hundred million dollars This plan received the approval of the Congress , and 6449 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
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14 of Sec 20 chains 40 chains set act of Congress American Army authority canal caused the seal chains set post city of Washington civil Colombia Colon commercial corner of section corner of township Cuba Department duty east half entry EXECUTIVE MANSION Forest Reserve Government half of northwest hand and caused hereby ordered hereunto set House of Representatives Indians Isthmus Isthmus of Panama JOHN HAY Louisiana Purchase Exposition ment military Navy north half northeast corner November officers Philippine Islands Porto Rico ports post thence due President proclamation public lands purposes quarter of section Republic of Panama Secretary Secretary of War set my hand set post thence settlement ship southeast southwest quarter Territory thence northerly thence westerly THEODORE ROOSEVELT thereof tion township tract of land transmit herewith treaty United vessels Washington west half Whereas WHITE HOUSE WILLIAM MCKINLEY
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Page 6473 - For the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and n'aval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect...
Page 6472 - Third. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States, to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 6474 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 6499 - That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof...
Page 6596 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 6571 - ... government become payable to the military occupant, unless he sees fit to substitute for them other rates or modes of contribution to the expenses of the government. The moneys so collected are to be used for the purpose of paying the expenses of government under the military occupation, such as the salaries of the judges and the police, and for the payment of the expenses of the army.