Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 20H. Niles, 1821 - United States Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times. |
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... less price than rags 111 ; remarks on , Floyd , col . Benjamin , 80 ; gen . William , an account of his death , & c . Foreign missions and impostors 287 145 101 Georgia -- A .new convent founded in 48 ; case of gen . Mitchell 116 ...
... less price than rags 111 ; remarks on , Floyd , col . Benjamin , 80 ; gen . William , an account of his death , & c . Foreign missions and impostors 287 145 101 Georgia -- A .new convent founded in 48 ; case of gen . Mitchell 116 ...
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... less zeal , less talents , and be sure , a " distracting question " before them - but perhaps , less virtue , than almost any other that we it ought not to have distracted the members from | have had - though it contains many really ...
... less zeal , less talents , and be sure , a " distracting question " before them - but perhaps , less virtue , than almost any other that we it ought not to have distracted the members from | have had - though it contains many really ...
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... less than the appropriations . Duplicate Offices , & c . Report of the committee on military affairs , upon the subject of the employment of officers of the army as clerks in the departments , and the extra pay allowed to them for such ...
... less than the appropriations . Duplicate Offices , & c . Report of the committee on military affairs , upon the subject of the employment of officers of the army as clerks in the departments , and the extra pay allowed to them for such ...
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... less than the salary of an agent ; and that the allowance of such compensation is not , in their opi- nion , improper or unreasonable . The committee respectfully refer the house , for the particular facts relating thereto , to the ...
... less than the salary of an agent ; and that the allowance of such compensation is not , in their opi- nion , improper or unreasonable . The committee respectfully refer the house , for the particular facts relating thereto , to the ...
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... less estensive to find , so far as the census is known to us , that public papers are disposed of , the editor of the RE- our estimates are worth much more than we sup- GISTER , aided by some gratuitous supplements and posed them to be ...
... less estensive to find , so far as the census is known to us , that public papers are disposed of , the editor of the RE- our estimates are worth much more than we sup- GISTER , aided by some gratuitous supplements and posed them to be ...
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Page 119 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 154 - States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 116 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity...
Page 154 - ... given for these objects it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire — for some purposes sovereign, for some purposes subordinate.
Page 35 - The inhabitants of the ceded territories shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion, without any restriction ; and all those who may desire to remove to the Spanish dominions shall be permitted to sell or export their effects, at any time whatever, without being subject, in either case, to duties. ARTICLE VI The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States...
Page 114 - It is a thing new; unheard of; supported by no experience; justified by no analogy; without example of our ancestors, or root in the Constitution. It is neither regular parliamentary taxation nor colony grant. " Experimentum in corpore vili...
Page 36 - ... to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding three and one quarter millions of dollars.
Page 35 - The United States of America and his Catholic Majesty, desiring to consolidate, on a permanent basis, the friendship and good correspondence which happily prevails between the two parties, have determined to settle and terminate all their differences and pretensions, by a Treaty, which shall designate, with precision, the limits of their respective bordering territories in North America.
Page 126 - An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service.
Page 36 - Finally, to all the claims of subjects of his Catholic Majesty upon the government of the United States, in which the interposition of his Catholic Majesty's government has been solicited, before the date of this Treaty, and since the date of the Convention of 1802, or which may have been made to the Department of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty, cr to his Minister in the United States.