The Congressional GlobeBlair & Rives, 1855 - United States |
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... purchasers , and the sums due from purchasers and from receivers in each land district ; " and the re - permit such purchasers of the public lands as port was read . sold for more than one dollar and twenty - five cer per acre , the ...
... purchasers , and the sums due from purchasers and from receivers in each land district ; " and the re - permit such purchasers of the public lands as port was read . sold for more than one dollar and twenty - five cer per acre , the ...
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... purchasers of public lands , praying that a law may be passed enabling them to apply the payments already made , to such portions of their entries as those payments will cover , at two dollars an acre , agreeably to the law under which ...
... purchasers of public lands , praying that a law may be passed enabling them to apply the payments already made , to such portions of their entries as those payments will cover , at two dollars an acre , agreeably to the law under which ...
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... purchasers of the public lands , and agreed thereto . The Senate adjourned to Monday . MONDAY , November 27 . HARRISON GRAY OTIS , from the State of Mas- sachusetts , arrived on the 25th instant ; and WIL- LIAM HUNTER , from the State ...
... purchasers of the public lands , and agreed thereto . The Senate adjourned to Monday . MONDAY , November 27 . HARRISON GRAY OTIS , from the State of Mas- sachusetts , arrived on the 25th instant ; and WIL- LIAM HUNTER , from the State ...
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... purchasers of the public lands in consequence of their inability to make payments agree- able to the terms of the law , and for giving reasonable time to said purchasers to complete the payment of the principal . DECEMBER , 1820 . The ...
... purchasers of the public lands in consequence of their inability to make payments agree- able to the terms of the law , and for giving reasonable time to said purchasers to complete the payment of the principal . DECEMBER , 1820 . The ...
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... purchasers of public lands , prior to the law " making further provision for the sale of the public lands , " stating that said law operates injuriously on them , and praying that they may be permitted to apply the payments already made ...
... purchasers of public lands , prior to the law " making further provision for the sale of the public lands , " stating that said law operates injuriously on them , and praying that they may be permitted to apply the payments already made ...
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Page 547 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 353 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 131 - received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the United States." CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
Page 425 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Page 543 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Page 723 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 723 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 651 - ... 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 117 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament, or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the crown to himself or...
Page 639 - Therefore, no male person, born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law, to serve any person, as a servant, slave or apprentice, after he arrives to the age of twenty-one years, nor female, in like manner, after she arrives to the age of eighteen years, unless they are bound by their own consent, after they arrive to such age, or bound by law, for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, or the like.