REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS |
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... Post - Office Department , management of the . Post - Office and Post - Roads , Committee on the- Vol . No. 3381 222230 00 00 4145– 4 00.00 144 2326 44 477 579 305 49 265 264 266 267 593 583 577 646 59 677 799 707 629 598 444 250 771 ...
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... Post - Offices and Post - Roads , for the pres- ent Congress , have submitted a report in this case , which was adopted by the Senate , and which your committee here adopt in the following words : The Committee on Post - Offices and ...
... Post - Offices and Post - Roads , for the pres- ent Congress , have submitted a report in this case , which was adopted by the Senate , and which your committee here adopt in the following words : The Committee on Post - Offices and ...
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... posts that are now occupied be abandoned advantageously ? General SHERMAN . They are daily , weekly , and monthly , being re- duced as fast as settlements supply their places . Some of what are called military posts , are mere ...
... posts that are now occupied be abandoned advantageously ? General SHERMAN . They are daily , weekly , and monthly , being re- duced as fast as settlements supply their places . Some of what are called military posts , are mere ...
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... posts called forts or batteries , which might as well be washed into the sea , and the quicker the better . There are a great many arsenals , over which I have no control , which in my mind are worse than useless ; and I have no doubt ...
... posts called forts or batteries , which might as well be washed into the sea , and the quicker the better . There are a great many arsenals , over which I have no control , which in my mind are worse than useless ; and I have no doubt ...
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... posts , which could not have been done but for those posts . Therefore I say the Third Regi- ment of Cavalry has rendered such service by occupying these posts that I would not abandon one of them . I would rather obliterate some town ...
... posts , which could not have been done but for those posts . Therefore I say the Third Regi- ment of Cavalry has rendered such service by occupying these posts that I would not abandon one of them . I would rather obliterate some town ...
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Page 6 - But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any sections, or any parts thereof, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same, then it shall be lawful for any agent or agents to be appointed by the governor of said State to select...
Page 2 - The total liabilities to any association, of any person, or of any company, corporation, or firm for money borrowed, including in the liabilities of a company or firm the liabilities of the several members thereof, shall at no time exceed one-tenth part of the amount of the capital stock of such association actually paid in.
Page 345 - No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any Executive Department of the Government, or for any bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper whatever, except in pursuance of a written authority for such publication from the head of such Department ; and no bill for any such advertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with such bill, a copy of such written authority.
Page 6 - That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act...
Page 6 - State only in manner following : that is to say, that a quantity of land not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections for each of said roads, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of each of said roads...
Page 6 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said roads.