Reports and Recommendations: Together with the Messages of the President and the Letters of the Secretary of State Transmitting the Same to Congress ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 434 páginas |
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Página 3 - Delambre found the quarter of the meridian equal to 5,130,740 toises, which result was adopted by the legislative body on the fourth messidor of the year VII (June 22, 1799). The same measure of length served also as a basis for establishing the unit of weight called a gram, adopted by the law of the eighteenth germinal, year III. This is the weight in a vacuum of a cubic centimeter of distilled water, taken at its maximum density, which corresponds to the temperature of 4° centigrade above zero....
Página 67 - An act granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the States of Illinois, Mississippi and Alabama, in aid of the construction of a railroad from Chicago to Mobile...
Página 175 - to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and [the] South Seas, and for that purpose to employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful.
Página 68 - States, after actual surveys ; thence running westerly upon the most direct, central, and practicable route, through the territories of the United States to the western boundary of the Territory of Nevada, there to meet and connect with the line of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California.
Página 13 - A uniform nomenclature for the description of articles of merchandise imported and exported; and 3. The establishment at Washington of an international bureau of information. The conference also at its final session decided to establish in the city of Washington, as a fitting memorial of its meeting, a Latin-American library, to be formed by contributions from the several nations, of historical, geographical, and literary works, maps, manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and...
Página 1 - State, inclosing a report adopted by the International American Conference, recently in session at this capital, recommending the establishment of an international American...
Página 4 - X. The appointment of an umpire, and his acceptance, shall take .place before the arbitrators enter upon the hearing of the questions in dispute. ARTICLE XI. The umpire shall not act as a member of the court, but his duties and powers shall be limited to the decision of questions, whether principal or incidental, upon which the arbitrators shall be unable to agree. ARTICLE XII.
Página 27 - Foreigners are entitled to enjoy all the civil rights enjoyed by natives; and they shall be accorded all the benefits of said rights in all that is essential as well as in the form or procedure, and the legal remedies incident thereto, absolutely in like manner as said natives.