The Life and Times of Silas Wright, Volume 1

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Page 286 - 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 723 - An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 731 - And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this...
Page 308 - ... provided that by this retrenchment the two States renounce the respective pretensions which are the object of the said article.
Page 286 - With the president's opinion; and by appointing his successor to effect such removal, which has been done, the president has assumed the. exercise of a power over the treasury of the United States not granted to him by the constitution and laws, and ' dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Page 573 - That the said treasury notes shall be prepared of such denominations as the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United...
Page 729 - States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or Treasury notes, or notes of the Bank of the United States...
Page 341 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 190 - That the reasons assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury for the removal of the money of the United States, deposited in the Bank of the United States and its branches, communicated to Congress on the third of December, 1833, are unsatisfactory and insufficient.
Page 748 - That all acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

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