Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ..., Volume 2; Volume 11; Volume 63Gales & Seaton, 1835 - Law |
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... legislative power , as seems now admitted , Congress alone could ever constitutionally exert it . This is the proper occa- sion to assert and maintain it ; and to provide that the public treasure shall never again be controlled , except ...
... legislative power , as seems now admitted , Congress alone could ever constitutionally exert it . This is the proper occa- sion to assert and maintain it ; and to provide that the public treasure shall never again be controlled , except ...
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... legislative halls ; he found every branch of this Government moving on in a harmonious career of usur- pation . The President saw his position , between power on the one side , and the welfare of his country on the other . Had he ...
... legislative halls ; he found every branch of this Government moving on in a harmonious career of usur- pation . The President saw his position , between power on the one side , and the welfare of his country on the other . Had he ...
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... legislators who framed these ab- surd laws are now astonished at the result of their own labors , and are the most clamorous against custom - house officers and executive patronage . We abandon the high offices of State to manage the ...
... legislators who framed these ab- surd laws are now astonished at the result of their own labors , and are the most clamorous against custom - house officers and executive patronage . We abandon the high offices of State to manage the ...
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... legislative abuse is corrected , there can be no ef- fective and permanent reform of the currency of this country . Banks of deposite , discount , transfer , and exchange , savings banks , and trust companies , are use- ful institutions ...
... legislative abuse is corrected , there can be no ef- fective and permanent reform of the currency of this country . Banks of deposite , discount , transfer , and exchange , savings banks , and trust companies , are use- ful institutions ...
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... legislative aid . Our modern statesmen , of this legislative school , have pushed their inquiries so far that you can scarcely take up a report on finance , in any country , without finding its author bewildered amidst the speculations ...
... legislative aid . Our modern statesmen , of this legislative school , have pushed their inquiries so far that you can scarcely take up a report on finance , in any country , without finding its author bewildered amidst the speculations ...
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Page 70 - No person who heretofore hath been, or hereafter may be, a collector or holder of public moneys, shall have a seat in either House of the General Assembly, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be accountable or liable.
Page 13 - SECTION 1. The Legislative power of this State shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly, which shall be designated the Legislature of the State of California...
Page 28 - Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.
Page 1 - That the regulations prescribed by the second section of the act entitled ' An act in addition to an act entitled ' An act to amend the judicial system of the United States...
Page 72 - ... trial, in possession of vouchers not before in his power to procure, and that he was prevented from exhibiting a claim for such credit at the Treasury by absence from the United States or by some unavoidable accident.
Page 16 - The answer is that it could only have been done for greater caution and to guard against all cavilling refinements in those who might hereafter feel a disposition to curtail and evade the legitimate authorities of the Union.
Page 71 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 86 - And be it further enacted, That the deposits of the money of the United States, in places in which the said bank and branches thereof may be established, shall be made in said bank or branches thereof, unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 9 - No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.