Customs Tariff of 1842 with Senate Debates Thereon Accompanied by Messages of the President, Treasury Reports, and Bills |
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... necessary , in any view that Congress may take up the subject , to revise the existing tariff of duties , I beg ... necessary taxes for the support of Government , yet an innate repugnance exists to the imposition of burthens not really ...
... necessary , in any view that Congress may take up the subject , to revise the existing tariff of duties , I beg ... necessary taxes for the support of Government , yet an innate repugnance exists to the imposition of burthens not really ...
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... necessary to lay additional duties on imports in order to meet the ordinary current expenses of the Government . In the exercise of a sound discrimination having reference to revenue , but at the same time necessarily affording ...
... necessary to lay additional duties on imports in order to meet the ordinary current expenses of the Government . In the exercise of a sound discrimination having reference to revenue , but at the same time necessarily affording ...
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... necessary not only to increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and disembarrass the public Treasury , would cause it to be re- garded as an unwise alienation of the best security ...
... necessary not only to increase the duties , but at the same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and disembarrass the public Treasury , would cause it to be re- garded as an unwise alienation of the best security ...
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... necessary means for conducting them with vigor and effect , I trust that this department of the Government will be found to have done all that was in its power to avert such evils , and will be acquitted of all just blame on account of ...
... necessary means for conducting them with vigor and effect , I trust that this department of the Government will be found to have done all that was in its power to avert such evils , and will be acquitted of all just blame on account of ...
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... necessary that I should do more than barely allude . Whatever may be , in theory , its character , I have always regarded it as importing the highest moral obligation . It has now existed for nine years unchanged in any essential ...
... necessary that I should do more than barely allude . Whatever may be , in theory , its character , I have always regarded it as importing the highest moral obligation . It has now existed for nine years unchanged in any essential ...
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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...