| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on a Judiciary - 1941 - 332 pages
...reside here, John Adams, he said : It is with you gentlemen to consider whether the local powers in the District of Columbia vested by the Constitution...shall be immediately exercised. If in your opinion this important trust ought now to be executed, you cannot fail while performing it to take into view... | |
| United States. Commission of Fine Arts - Art and state - 1949 - 120 pages
...country may simple manners, pure morals, and (rue religion flourish forever. It is with you, gentlemen, to consider whether the local powers over the District...by the Constitution in the Congress of the United Slates shall he immediately exercised. If in your opinion this important trust ought now to be executed,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1965 - 248 pages
...children were placed in Junior Village in the District of Columbia in 1962 It is with you, gentlemen, to consider whether the local powers over the District...shall be immediately exercised. If, in your opinion this important trust ought now to be executed, you cannot fail, while performing it to take into view... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1917 - 368 pages
...year 1800 assembled at Washington President Adams in his speech at its opening reminded the two houses that it was for them to consider whether the local...Constitution in the Congress of the United States, should be immediately exercised, and he asked them to 'consider it as the capital of a great nation,... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1903 - 338 pages
...significant reference to the political relations of the new District when he said : "It is with you gentlemen to consider whether the local powers over the District...the United States shall be immediately exercised." This portion of the address was referred to a special committee and Henry Lee, of Virginia, was named... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 376 pages
...gracious Providence in health and activity to exercise the functions of Chief Magistrate. "The question whether the local powers over the District of Columbia...of the United States shall be immediately exercised is of great importance, and in deliberating upon it we shall naturally be led to weigh the attending... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1917 - 376 pages
...year 1800 assembled at Washington President Adams in his speech at its opening reminded the two houses that it was for them to consider whether the local...Constitution in the Congress of the United States, should be immediately exercised, and he asked them to 'consider it as the capital of a great nation,... | |
| Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 650 pages
...gracious Providence in health and activity to exercise the functions of Chief Magistrate. "The question whether the local powers over the District of Columbia...of the United States shall be immediately exercised is of great importance, and in deliberating upon it we shall naturally be led to weigh the attending... | |
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