 | Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1825 - 344 pages
...they laboured for want of a regular form of government, and requested Congress to favour them " with explicit advice, respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, &c." On the third instant, the foregoing letter was taken into consideration; and it was 'solved, "That... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1825 - 318 pages
...they laboured for want of a regular form of government, and requested Congress to favour them " with explicit advice, respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, &c." On the third instant, the foregoing letter was taken into consideration; and it was Resolved,... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - 564 pages
...they laboured for want of a regular form of government, and requested Congress to favour them " with explicit advice, respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, &c." On the third instant, the foregoing letter was taken into consideration; and it was Resolved,... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...setting forth the difficulties they labour under for want of a regular form of government, and requesting explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, resolved : " That no obedience being due to the Act of Parliament for altering the Charter of the Colony... | |
 | James Savage - Constitutional history - 1832 - 16 pages
...addressed, as from the journals of the General Congress, 2d June, appears, requesting the favor of " explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government," declaring also our readiness "to submit to such a general plan as the Congress may direct for the Colonies,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Provincial Congress - Massachusetts - 1838 - 866 pages
...more necessary to have a regular established government, requesting the Congress to favor them with " explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government," and declaring their readiness to " submit to such a general plan as the Congress may direct for the... | |
 | Bibliography - 1842 - 576 pages
...difficulties they labored under for want of a regular government, requesting Congress to favor them " with explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government," and declaring their readiness " to submit to such a general plan as Congress may direct for the colonies,... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...under, for want of a regular form of government, ***** requesting the Congress to favor them with " explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government," and declaring their readiness to " submit to such a general plan as the Congress may direct for the... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...provincial Convention of Massachusetts, requesting Congress, among other things, to favor them with " explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government," &c. The vigorous and impulsive mind of John Adams had already anticipated the subject. In his opinion,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...upon another committee, to whom was referred a letter from the Convention of Massachusetts, asking ' explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government,' and suggesting the propriety of Congress taking the regulation and general direction of the army into... | |
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humbly hope you will favor us with your most explicit advice respecting the taking up and exercising the powers of civil government, which we think absolutely necessary for the salvation of o,ur country : and we shall readily submit to such a general... 
