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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1828
 

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Página 3 - An Act to regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve Peace on the Frontiers...
Página 21 - That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress...
Página 6 - Flint river; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Página 4 - ... to the violation, on the part of Spain, of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation, between the United States of America and the King of Spain ;" and this resolution was agreed to unanimously.
Página 42 - ... and every such ship or vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunition and stores, which may have been procured for the building and equipment thereof, shall be forfeited, one half to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the United States.
Página 6 - The southern boundary of the United States, which divides their territory from the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the River Mississippi, at the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of latitude...
Página 14 - States requires that this enumeration should be made within every term of ten years, and the date from which the last enumeration commenced was the first Monday of August, of the year 1820. The laws under which the former enumerations were taken were enacted at the session of Congress immediately preceding the operation. But considerable- inconveniences were experienced from the delay of legislation to so late a period.
Página 9 - Union are impotent to restore the balance in favor of native industry, destroyed by the statutes of another realm ? More just and more generous sentiments will, I trust, prevail. If the tariff adopted at the last session of Congress shall be found by experience to bear oppressively upon the interests of any one section of the Union it ought to be, and I can not doubt will be, so modified as to alleviate its burden.
Página 14 - May, 1826, for the erection of a penitentiary in this District have been accomplished. The authority of further legislation is now required for the removal to this tenement of the offenders against the laws sentenced to atone by personal confinement for their crimes, and to provide a code for their employment and government while thus confined. The commissioners appointed, conformably to the act of...

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