Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1 |
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... District of Columbia . Placed , by the Constitution , under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of Congress , this District is certainly entitled to a much greater share of its consideration than it has yet received . There is a want ...
... District of Columbia . Placed , by the Constitution , under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of Congress , this District is certainly entitled to a much greater share of its consideration than it has yet received . There is a want ...
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... District of Columbia , be referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia . 15. Resolved , That the said select committees have leave to report by bill , or otherwise . The said resolutions were again read at the Clerk's table ...
... District of Columbia , be referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia . 15. Resolved , That the said select committees have leave to report by bill , or otherwise . The said resolutions were again read at the Clerk's table ...
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... District of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of protecting from injury the canals and other highways of the District of Columbia , and of providing a system of police for the better government of the same . On ...
... District of Columbia be instructed to inquire into the expediency of protecting from injury the canals and other highways of the District of Columbia , and of providing a system of police for the better government of the same . On ...
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... district court of the United States for the district of Missouri , reported that the said Managers have had under consideration the answer of James H. Peck to the article of impeachment exhibited against him by this House , and ...
... district court of the United States for the district of Missouri , reported that the said Managers have had under consideration the answer of James H. Peck to the article of impeachment exhibited against him by this House , and ...
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... district court of the United States for the district of Missouri , to the article of impeachment exhibited to the Senate against him by this House ; and have directed the Managers appointed to conduct the said impeachment to carry the ...
... district court of the United States for the district of Missouri , to the article of impeachment exhibited to the Senate against him by this House ; and have directed the Managers appointed to conduct the said impeachment to carry the ...
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Abraham Bockee affirmative amendment Augustine H Benjamin Swift bill was read Cambreleng Campbell Charles committed Committee of Claims Committee on Commerce Committee on Military Daniel desired by one-fifth district Ebenezer engrossed entitled An act expediency further consideration George Loyall Horace Everett instructed to inquire Isaac Finch Isaac Pierson Jacob Crocheron James Findlay James Lent James Trezvant Jehiel H Jesse Speight Joel John Roane Jonah Sanford Jonas Earll Joseph Draper Joseph Lecompte laid Leonard Jarvis Messrs Military Pensions motion nays being desired Ohio Ordered Pensions be instructed Perkins King Peter Ihrie petition of inhabitants petition of John petition was referred praying presented a memorial presented a petition Pryor Lea Public Lands read a third relief resolution Resolved Richard Robert E. B. Baylor Rufus McIntire Secretary Senate Speaker Spencer Pettis Starling Tucker Sterigere Storrs Thomas Chilton Thomas H United Verplanck voted Whole House to-morrow Wickliffe William W
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Page 26 - What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion ? The present policy of the Government is but a continuation of the same progressive change by a milder process.
Page 49 - 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.