Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1 |
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... resolved by the Council and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey , That our Senators in Congress be , and they are hereby , instructed to vote for , and use their influence , to have EXPUNGED from the journal of the United States ...
... resolved by the Council and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey , That our Senators in Congress be , and they are hereby , instructed to vote for , and use their influence , to have EXPUNGED from the journal of the United States ...
Page 68
... Resolved , That the General Assembly approve the course of our Senators in Congress in opposition to the recharter of the United States Bank . 3. Resolved , That the United States Bank possesses powers too extensive , and that those ...
... Resolved , That the General Assembly approve the course of our Senators in Congress in opposition to the recharter of the United States Bank . 3. Resolved , That the United States Bank possesses powers too extensive , and that those ...
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... Resolved , That Overton Carr be appointed principal doorkeeper to this House . And the question was put , that the House do agree to the said resolution as modified : And passed in the affirmative . On motion of Mr. Bockee , it was Resolved ...
... Resolved , That Overton Carr be appointed principal doorkeeper to this House . And the question was put , that the House do agree to the said resolution as modified : And passed in the affirmative . On motion of Mr. Bockee , it was Resolved ...
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... Resolved , That so much of said message as relates to the commerce of the United States with foreign nations and their dependencies , be referred to the Committee on Commerce . 3. Resolved , That so much of said message as relates to ...
... Resolved , That so much of said message as relates to the commerce of the United States with foreign nations and their dependencies , be referred to the Committee on Commerce . 3. Resolved , That so much of said message as relates to ...
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... Resolved , That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the propriety of granting to Captain John Smith , of the borough of Carlisle , in the State of Pennsylvania , late a lieutenant in the revolutionary ...
... Resolved , That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be instructed to inquire into the propriety of granting to Captain John Smith , of the borough of Carlisle , in the State of Pennsylvania , late a lieutenant in the revolutionary ...
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Page 63 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 346 - The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...
Page 30 - There is, doubtless, no respectable portion of our countrymen who can be so far misled as to feel any other sentiment than that of indignant regret at conduct so destructive of the harmony and peace of the country, and so repugnant to the principles of our national compact, and to the dictates of humanity and religion.
Page 39 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Page 125 - An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,' passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Page 240 - An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and also an act entitled " An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports...
Page 30 - South have given so strong and impressive a tone to the sentiments entertained against the proceedings of the misguided persons who have engaged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts, and especially against the emissaries from foreign parts who have dared to interfere in this matter, as to authorize the hope that those attempts will no longer be persisted in.
Page 445 - An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed...
Page 21 - State institutions of that period we should derive from that institution all the security and benefits of a sound currency and every good end that was attainable under that provision of the Constitution which authorizes Congress alone to coin money and regulate the value thereof. But it is scarcely necessary now to say that these anticipations have not been realized.
Page 31 - I should have regarded the failure of Congress to act upon it as an indication of their judgment that the disadvantages which belong to the present system were not so great as those which would result from any attainable substitute that had been submitted to their consideration.