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... Coast survey , report of A. D. Bache on .... estimates for same for 1852-3 .. report of Secretary of the Treasury on Commissioner of Indian Affairs- estimates for compensation to commissioner , clerks , & c . , for the fiscal year ...
... Coast survey , report of A. D. Bache on .... estimates for same for 1852-3 .. report of Secretary of the Treasury on Commissioner of Indian Affairs- estimates for compensation to commissioner , clerks , & c . , for the fiscal year ...
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... coast .... protection of the territory of Mexico against savage tribes . expenditures of the War Department .. expedition in search of Sir John Franklin . re - organizing the naval establishment . rank between officers of the navy and ...
... coast .... protection of the territory of Mexico against savage tribes . expenditures of the War Department .. expedition in search of Sir John Franklin . re - organizing the naval establishment . rank between officers of the navy and ...
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... Coast Survey . Report of the Commissioner of Pensions ... Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs . Message in relation to claims upon Portugal Militia , annual return of .. Military Academy , estimates for . Mint , United States ...
... Coast Survey . Report of the Commissioner of Pensions ... Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs . Message in relation to claims upon Portugal Militia , annual return of .. Military Academy , estimates for . Mint , United States ...
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... coast survey ( 17 diagrams ) . 98 84 14 5,900 $ 237 30 55 wood cuts , at $ 5 each .. Total 12,859 96 WASHINGTON , May 26 , 1851 . Pay to the order of Robert Farnham . JUNE 30 , 1851. - Received the above amount of twelve thousand eight ...
... coast survey ( 17 diagrams ) . 98 84 14 5,900 $ 237 30 55 wood cuts , at $ 5 each .. Total 12,859 96 WASHINGTON , May 26 , 1851 . Pay to the order of Robert Farnham . JUNE 30 , 1851. - Received the above amount of twelve thousand eight ...
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... Coast survey , with 17 maps , diagrams , & c . ( Charged in separate bill ) . 5,900 1 16 Sir John Franklin .. 12 24 18 Clerks , & c . , in Treasury Department .. 32 11 8 21 Contingent expenses military department . 8 24 8 24 23 ...
... Coast survey , with 17 maps , diagrams , & c . ( Charged in separate bill ) . 5,900 1 16 Sir John Franklin .. 12 24 18 Clerks , & c . , in Treasury Department .. 32 11 8 21 Contingent expenses military department . 8 24 8 24 23 ...
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Page 78 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 7 - To avoid improper influences, which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 5 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation ; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Page 78 - ... dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 78 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.
Page 27 - If, indeed, an attempt should be made to disturb them, by putting arms in the hands of one portion of their population to destroy another, and which in its influence would endanger the peace of a portion of the United States, the case might be different. Against such an attempt the United States (being informed that it was in contemplation) have already protested and warmly remonstrated, in their communications last summer with the government of Mexico; but the information lately communicated to...
Page 5 - ... the probable course of events, for the short period of half a century, it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 4 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations, has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas, the character of its population, its situation midway between our southern coast and the island of St.