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... whole of which a cellar nine feet deep was blasted out of the solid rock ; a hospital ; guard - house ; quartermaster and ordnance stores ; a gun - house ; black- smith shop , and bake - house ; also , new roofs put upon the three block ...
... whole of which a cellar nine feet deep was blasted out of the solid rock ; a hospital ; guard - house ; quartermaster and ordnance stores ; a gun - house ; black- smith shop , and bake - house ; also , new roofs put upon the three block ...
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... whole with a strong oak picketing , averaging from two to three feet in diameter , four feet in the ground and twelve feet out ; and , when completed , the appropriation of $ 5,000 was not all expended . Thus did his plan of economy ...
... whole with a strong oak picketing , averaging from two to three feet in diameter , four feet in the ground and twelve feet out ; and , when completed , the appropriation of $ 5,000 was not all expended . Thus did his plan of economy ...
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... whole of his business attention was given to the duties of his profession . He never speculated in lands , or otherwise ; consequently , he lived on his pay , and could not expect to leave a fortune for his family . During a lapse of 9 ...
... whole of his business attention was given to the duties of his profession . He never speculated in lands , or otherwise ; consequently , he lived on his pay , and could not expect to leave a fortune for his family . During a lapse of 9 ...
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... whole amount was unpaid , or whether short deties only had been paid , and that it was no objection to the form of action that the non - payment had been accompanied by fraud . Mr. Haight , of counsel for defendant , then objected to ...
... whole amount was unpaid , or whether short deties only had been paid , and that it was no objection to the form of action that the non - payment had been accompanied by fraud . Mr. Haight , of counsel for defendant , then objected to ...
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... whole subject again ? Law and good sense and public policy require the reverse . There is to be no statute of limitations . Is it to be tolerated that all our merchants are to be dragged here to account for all acts since the passage of ...
... whole subject again ? Law and good sense and public policy require the reverse . There is to be no statute of limitations . Is it to be tolerated that all our merchants are to be dragged here to account for all acts since the passage of ...
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Page 90 - Declaration: that we believe him to be 84 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Page 20 - An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war...
Page 29 - States, and leave a widow, or, If no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay...
Page 87 - Jersey, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
Page 33 - ... Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of 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 or by order of any college, academy, school or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or public...
Page 6 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 30 - An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution...
Page 14 - That any commissioned or non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, marine or seaman, disabled in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, by known wounds received during the revolutionary war...
Page 30 - ... pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension...
Page 86 - The following regulations have been adopted by the Secretary of War for carrying into effect the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, entitled " An act supplementary to ' An act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.