Customs Tariff of 1842 with Senate Debates Thereon Accompanied by Messages of the President, Treasury Reports, and Bills |
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... measure connected with the last of the two objects above men- tioned was introduced until recently into the House of ... measures adequate to cor- rect the evil at once . The stagnation of trade and business , in some degree incident to ...
... measure connected with the last of the two objects above men- tioned was introduced until recently into the House of ... measures adequate to cor- rect the evil at once . The stagnation of trade and business , in some degree incident to ...
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... measures , on the contrary , will in the end , as is now manifest to all , too surely multiply its embarrassments . Rely- ing , as I am bound to do , on the representatives of a people rendered illustrious among nations by having paid ...
... measures , on the contrary , will in the end , as is now manifest to all , too surely multiply its embarrassments . Rely- ing , as I am bound to do , on the representatives of a people rendered illustrious among nations by having paid ...
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... measure . But to continue it in force while there is no such surplus to distribute and when it is manifestly necessary not only to increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and ...
... measure . But to continue it in force while there is no such surplus to distribute and when it is manifestly necessary not only to increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and ...
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... measures now submitted to your better judgment , as well as those to which your attention has been already invited . The first great want of the country , that without answering which all attempts at bettering the present condition of ...
... measures now submitted to your better judgment , as well as those to which your attention has been already invited . The first great want of the country , that without answering which all attempts at bettering the present condition of ...
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... measure is , in my judgment , called for by a large number , if not a great majority , of the people of the United ... measures entertained no doubt but that the loan would be eagerly sought after and taken up by capitalists and speedily ...
... measure is , in my judgment , called for by a large number , if not a great majority , of the people of the United ... measures entertained no doubt but that the loan would be eagerly sought after and taken up by capitalists and speedily ...
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Common terms and phrases
20 per cent amendment amount appraisers bar iron Benton bottles Buchanan bushel casks cents per gallon cents per pound cents per square centum ad valorem collected collector committee compromise act Congress Connecticut consignee cordage cost cotton Crittenden dollars and fifty dollars per dozen drawback duties on imports Evans exceeding exported fifty cents five cents foreign further enacted glass Government Hampshire hemp home valuation hydrometer inches interests iron John Kentucky labor leather legislation levied manufactures material merchandise Nathaniel Silsbee otherwise specified ounces paid pig iron port proposed protection Provided question rate of duty Senator seventy-five cents ships or vessels silk Simmons South Carolina spirits square yard sugar Tallmadge tariff thereof thirty per centum thousand eight hundred tion Treasury twenty per centum twenty-five cents twenty-five per centum United valorem duty vote wares William Woodbury wool yeas and nays Yeas-Messrs
Popular passages
Page 334 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 304 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 241 - The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time.
Page 202 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent.
Page 202 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 195 - An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 41 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 361 - States shall be first satisfied, and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed.
Page 51 - Act of Congress, to be entered in the ports of the United States on payment of the same duties as shall then be paid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in vessels of the United States.
Page 312 - ... any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States...