Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1809 - Legislation
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

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Page 37 - Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law...
Page 654 - Congress concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies...
Page 266 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Page 445 - Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House...
Page 51 - Cobb, that the House do come to the following resolution — Resolved, that the late seizure of the Spanish posts at Pensacola and St.
Page 481 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 643 - Act for the better government of the Navy of the United States...
Page 9 - The resolutions of the legislative council and house of representatives of the Indiana territory, relate to a suspension, for the term of ten years, of the sixth article of compact between the United States and the territories and states northwest of the river Ohio, passed the 13th of July, 1787.
Page 6 - House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States...
Page 427 - An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise imported from any foreign port or place, and for other purposes.

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