Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1

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Page 720 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 245 - Resolved, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of organizing all the territory of the United States...
Page 31 - ... their sentiments, the present Congress will be sincerely solicitous to carry into full and fair effect the will of their constituents in regard to this institution. It will be for those in whose behalf we all act, to decide whether the executive department of the government, in the steps which it has taken on this subject, has been found in the line of its duty.
Page 357 - Resolved, That the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating $30,000, to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph between Washington and Baltimore.
Page 721 - Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making...
Page 864 - Senate, the Speaker Of the House of Representatives,' and to each of our Senators and Representatives -In' the Congress of 'the United States'.
Page 373 - Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating thirty thousand dollars, to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph between Washington and Baltimore.
Page 33 - Regarding it as all important to the future quiet and harmony of the people that every intermediate agency in the election of these officers should be removed and that their eligibility should be limited to one term of either four or six years, I can not too earnestly invite your consideration of the subject.
Page 397 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an Act entitled ' an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 36 - Commerce, A Committee on the Public Lands, A Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, A Committee for the District of Columbia, A Committee on the Judiciary, A Committee on Revolutionary Claims, A Committee on Public Expenditures...

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