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... hope , will be com- pleted the work of reconstruction . With an acquiescence on the part of the whole people in the national obligation to pay the public debt , created as the price of our Union ; the pensions to our disabled soldiers ...
... hope , will be com- pleted the work of reconstruction . With an acquiescence on the part of the whole people in the national obligation to pay the public debt , created as the price of our Union ; the pensions to our disabled soldiers ...
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... hope such encouragement will be given as will secure American shipping on the high seas and American ship - building at home . The condition of the archives at the Department of State calls for the early action of Congress . The ...
... hope such encouragement will be given as will secure American shipping on the high seas and American ship - building at home . The condition of the archives at the Department of State calls for the early action of Congress . The ...
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... hope of safety for either the building or its contents in case of the accident of a fire . Its destruction would involve the loss of the rolls containing the original acts and resolutions of Congress , of the historic records of the ...
... hope of safety for either the building or its contents in case of the accident of a fire . Its destruction would involve the loss of the rolls containing the original acts and resolutions of Congress , of the historic records of the ...
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... hope during the present session of Congress to be able to submit to it a plan by which naval vessels can be built and repairs made with great saving upon the present cost . It can hardly be wise statesmanship in a government which ...
... hope during the present session of Congress to be able to submit to it a plan by which naval vessels can be built and repairs made with great saving upon the present cost . It can hardly be wise statesmanship in a government which ...
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... hope that the policy now pursued will , in a few years , bring all the Indians upon reservations , where they will live in houses , have school - houses and churches , and will be pursuing peaceful and self - sustaining avocations , and ...
... hope that the policy now pursued will , in a few years , bring all the Indians upon reservations , where they will live in houses , have school - houses and churches , and will be pursuing peaceful and self - sustaining avocations , and ...
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Page 45 - States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 49 - ... things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel...
Page 151 - ... equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service...
Page 412 - 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 152 - And we do hereby further warn all our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if any of them shall presume, in contempt of this our royal proclamation, and of our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral sovereign...
Page 45 - ... 2. Enlisting or entering into the service of either of the said belligerents as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer.
Page 217 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and...
Page 436 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 159 - ... to believe that the same shall or will be employed in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with any friendly State; or 4.
Page 47 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.