The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 3Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1829 - Pennsylvania |
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... tion , that , while in being , they may still continue of the same value with real money , according to the rates , at which they are at first issued . Fourthly , That , if those bills be issued on any easier terms to the receiver ...
... tion , that , while in being , they may still continue of the same value with real money , according to the rates , at which they are at first issued . Fourthly , That , if those bills be issued on any easier terms to the receiver ...
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... tion and repair have progressed satisfactorily , and it is expected they will be placed before the end of the working season , out of danger from the ice . Arrange- ments have been made for effecting the repair of those at Port Penn ...
... tion and repair have progressed satisfactorily , and it is expected they will be placed before the end of the working season , out of danger from the ice . Arrange- ments have been made for effecting the repair of those at Port Penn ...
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... tion . A SKETCH OF CRAWFORD COUNTY , PA . The county has not been explored for mineral pro- ductions , but it is well ascertained that it abounds with iron ore ; and , no doubt , in process of time , as they are sought after , other ...
... tion . A SKETCH OF CRAWFORD COUNTY , PA . The county has not been explored for mineral pro- ductions , but it is well ascertained that it abounds with iron ore ; and , no doubt , in process of time , as they are sought after , other ...
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... tion are taxables , would give 6905 inhabitants . In 1820 this county contained 4127 inhabitants . Taxables in 1814 1821 1828 41 551 979 1381 Increase . 428 402 Being at the rate of 77 2-3 per cent . from 1814 to 1821 And of do . 1821 ...
... tion are taxables , would give 6905 inhabitants . In 1820 this county contained 4127 inhabitants . Taxables in 1814 1821 1828 41 551 979 1381 Increase . 428 402 Being at the rate of 77 2-3 per cent . from 1814 to 1821 And of do . 1821 ...
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... tion from your memorialists . Your memorialists therefore humbly pray your honor- able bodies to pass such laws as in your wisdom you may deem expedient to prevent the laying out or opening any street , road , lane , court or alley ...
... tion from your memorialists . Your memorialists therefore humbly pray your honor- able bodies to pass such laws as in your wisdom you may deem expedient to prevent the laying out or opening any street , road , lane , court or alley ...
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Page 166 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes, on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform; which will require, particularly, the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Federal Government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed, or continued power in, unfaithful or incompetent hands.
Page 166 - In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
Page 166 - In such measures as I may be called on to pursue, in regard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union; taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the confederacy.
Page 166 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Page 166 - As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will ; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending ; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable agis.
Page 247 - British constitution, was the limitation of the king's prerogative by bounds so certain and notorious that it is impossible he should ever exceed them, without the consent of the people on the one hand ; or without, on the other, a violation of that original contract which, in all states impliedly, and in ours most expressly, subsists between the prince and the subject.
Page 231 - ... doing unto others as we would have others do unto us." A moderate degree of attention to this rule, would annihilate a great portion of the distress of hundreds of suffering females. One important means of mitigating the distress of this class, would be, to increase as far as possible the diversity of female employments, by which that competition which has produced the pernicious reduction of wages, would he diminished.
Page 166 - With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of impost, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, should be equally...
Page 313 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Page 25 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.