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... less amount purchased of the A. & R. R. R. Co. , is 10,388 The iron purchased of H. Gray & Co. , is § by 21 inch , and is principally designed for repairs and side tracks . Whole number of net tons , is Average cost per net ton , is ...
... less amount purchased of the A. & R. R. R. Co. , is 10,388 The iron purchased of H. Gray & Co. , is § by 21 inch , and is principally designed for repairs and side tracks . Whole number of net tons , is Average cost per net ton , is ...
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... not fall far short of $ 700,000 , leaving our debt on the first of July last , about $ 3,421,720 , the annual interest of which would be something less than $ 206,000 . Of the above amount , some three - fourths has SENATE . No. 7 . 2.
... not fall far short of $ 700,000 , leaving our debt on the first of July last , about $ 3,421,720 , the annual interest of which would be something less than $ 206,000 . Of the above amount , some three - fourths has SENATE . No. 7 . 2.
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... less to de- termine that any one of our officers has during the past season acted upon this hypothesis , nor that the public opinion , said to be in favor of a sale of the roads , is based upon any such action . The undersigned has felt ...
... less to de- termine that any one of our officers has during the past season acted upon this hypothesis , nor that the public opinion , said to be in favor of a sale of the roads , is based upon any such action . The undersigned has felt ...
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... of action , un- less the same is based upon correct intelligence and authenticated facts . Blind obedience to instructions founded in error , forms no part of the duties or obligation of an upright Representative SENATE . No , 7 .
... of action , un- less the same is based upon correct intelligence and authenticated facts . Blind obedience to instructions founded in error , forms no part of the duties or obligation of an upright Representative SENATE . No , 7 .
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... less value than the cash received , and I am with them , and for a sale with proper restrictions . But until those propositions are thus established , the undersigned must be permitted still to adhere to his opinion that the impediments ...
... less value than the cash received , and I am with them , and for a sale with proper restrictions . But until those propositions are thus established , the undersigned must be permitted still to adhere to his opinion that the impediments ...
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Page 3 - ... remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the support of said university, with such branches as the public convenience may demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be authorized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the legislature as soon as may be. to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said university.
Page 9 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Page 3 - The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature; and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 8 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Page 13 - When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government.
Page 1 - States, such stipulation would have been void and inoperative, because the United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain within the limits of a State or elsewhere, except in the cases in which it is expressly granted.
Page 14 - By the preceding course of reasoning we have arrived at these general conclusions.: First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
Page 7 - September last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed Into states, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square...
Page 10 - We think a proper examination of this subject will show, that the United States never held any municipal sovereignty, jurisdiction or right of soil, in. and to the territory of which Alabama or any of the new States were formed ; except for temporary purposes, and to execute the trusts created by the acts of the Virginia and Georgia legislatures, and the deeds of cession executed by them to the United States, and the trust created by the treaty with the French Republic of the 30th of April, 1803,...
Page 3 - An act granting two townships of land for the use of a university in the Territory of Iowa," are hereby granted and conveyed to the State, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of such university, in such manner as the legislature may prescribe.