California and New Mexico: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Information in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 31st of December, 1849, on the Subject of California and New Mexico |
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... mission . Your compensation will be at the rate of eight dollars per diem , from the time of your departure on the business of your mission until your return home ; and you will be allowed your travelling and other expenses during your ...
... mission . Your compensation will be at the rate of eight dollars per diem , from the time of your departure on the business of your mission until your return home ; and you will be allowed your travelling and other expenses during your ...
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... mission . WASHINGTON , January 3 , 1848 . SIR : I think it proper that you should be informed that a very consid- erable portion of the most valuable instruments used on the northeastern boundary survey , and now in possession of Major ...
... mission . WASHINGTON , January 3 , 1848 . SIR : I think it proper that you should be informed that a very consid- erable portion of the most valuable instruments used on the northeastern boundary survey , and now in possession of Major ...
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... mission ? Whilst so much time is being consumed in getting a successor to Mr. Weller installed , is it expected of him to keep up the service , or is a sus- pension desired ? If the former , it cannot be Doc . No. 17 . 89.
... mission ? Whilst so much time is being consumed in getting a successor to Mr. Weller installed , is it expected of him to keep up the service , or is a sus- pension desired ? If the former , it cannot be Doc . No. 17 . 89.
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... mission I propose William Carey Jones , esq . , well known to you as an adept in the Spanish language , and as a lawyer well skilled in the Spanish colonial titles . I propose , if it meet your approbation , that you commission him to ...
... mission I propose William Carey Jones , esq . , well known to you as an adept in the Spanish language , and as a lawyer well skilled in the Spanish colonial titles . I propose , if it meet your approbation , that you commission him to ...
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... missions or pueblos . He might also , if he deemed it expedient , change any mission into a pueblo , and subject it to the same civil and economical laws as governed the other pueblos of the kingdom .- ( Vide appendix No. 1. ) On the ...
... missions or pueblos . He might also , if he deemed it expedient , change any mission into a pueblo , and subject it to the same civil and economical laws as governed the other pueblos of the kingdom .- ( Vide appendix No. 1. ) On the ...
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Page 844 - ... on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that...
Page 96 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, as is vested in the circuit and district courts of the United States...
Page 839 - Upon conviction for treason, he shall have power to suspend the execution of the sentence until the case shall be reported to the Legislature at its next meeting, when the Legislature shall either pardon, or commute the sentence, direct the execution of the sentence, or grant a further reprieve.
Page 844 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of California, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of , according to the best of my ability.
Page 93 - Territory, and reprieves for offences against the laws of the United States until the decision of the President can be made known thereon ; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of the said Territory, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
Page 834 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 844 - When the duration of any office, is not provided by this Constitution, it may be declared by law, and if not so declared, such office shall be held, during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment.
Page 93 - States ; he shall record and preserve all the laws and proceedings of the legislative assembly hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department...
Page 96 - Territory appointed, who shall hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the president, and who shall execute all processes issuing from the said courts, when exercising their jurisdiction as circuit and district courts of the United States...
Page 836 - Courts, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the State; but the party convicted or acquitted shall, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, and punishment, according to law.