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Seite 123 - But it is an inquiry, which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act " more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States...
Seite 113 - ... month, on behalf of the Government by the said superintendent, with the chiefs of the Crow Creek band of Umpqua Indians in said Territory. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, February 6, 1854.. To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the resolution* of the House of Representatives of the 14th of December last, and recommend that the appropriation therein suggested as being necessary to enable him to comply with the resolution be made. FRANKLIN...
Seite 1 - The sounder and more prevalent doctrine, however, is, that the citizen or subject, having faithfully performed the past and present duties resulting from his relation to the Sovereign Power, may at any time release himself from the obligation of allegiance, freely quit the land of his birth or adoption, seek through all countries a home, and select anywhere that which offers him the fairest prospect of happiness for himself and his posterity.
Seite 1 - ... since the power to lay duties will, in this instance, be exercised, in order to carry into effect several express provisions of the Constitution, having the same object in view. Congress may, if it deems it proper, lay a stamp duty, on small notes, which will put an end to their circulation. It may lay such a duty on all bank notes, as would convert all the banks into banks of discount and deposit only, annihilate the paper currency, and render a Bank of the United States unnecessary in reference...
Seite 7 - If be had incurred penalties or assumed duties while under these laws, he might have expected they would be enforced against him, and should have known that the new political relation he had acquired, if indeed he had acquired any, could not operate as a release from these penalties. Having been once subject to the municipal laws of Austria, and while under her jurisdiction violated these laws, his withdrawal from that jurisdiction and acquiring a different national character would not exempt him...
Seite 14 - SIR: In compliance with your request I have the honor to submit the following report...
Seite 10 - This is especially desirable in reference to the fishes, which occupy a very intimate relation to the waters in which they live. The smaller quadrupeds, of the size of a mouse, may be preserved entire in alcohol. Larger kinds should be skinned, and the skins thrown in alcohol, or coated inside with arsenic and dried.
Seite 83 - They can point with just pride to the determination of two practicable [i.'u-sos in that most formidable barrier from the Mississippi to the Pacific, of the Cascade range, and to a most admirable development of the unknown geography of the region eastward to the Columbia, as showing the unsurpassed skill and devotion which has characterized the chief of the division and all of his associates.