The Register of Debates: Being a Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Two Houses of Congress, Reported for the United States Telegraph : Revised and Corrected Wherever Errors Have Been Suggested by the Speakers, Volume 2Duff Green, 1834 - United States |
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... favor of Chesapeake and Ohio canal , 276. On death of Mr. Den- nis , 443. On Prince George county me- morial , 470 . KENTUCKY ELECTION .-- See Election . KING , Mr. , of Geo .-- 20 , 65. On Augusta , Georgia , memorial , 256. On ...
... favor of Chesapeake and Ohio canal , 276. On death of Mr. Den- nis , 443. On Prince George county me- morial , 470 . KENTUCKY ELECTION .-- See Election . KING , Mr. , of Geo .-- 20 , 65. On Augusta , Georgia , memorial , 256. On ...
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... favor of pro- curing the passage of a law , authorizing James H. Caldwell to import , free of duty , the mate- rials for a gas apparatus ; referred to the Com- mittee on Finance . Mr. KING , of Georgia , presented a memorial , ( names ...
... favor of pro- curing the passage of a law , authorizing James H. Caldwell to import , free of duty , the mate- rials for a gas apparatus ; referred to the Com- mittee on Finance . Mr. KING , of Georgia , presented a memorial , ( names ...
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... favor of now acting upon it . Mr. CLAY , from the Committee on Public Lands , reported a bill for the relief of James Kitchens , which was twice read and ordered to be engrossed . Mr. GILMER presented sundry documents in relation to the ...
... favor of now acting upon it . Mr. CLAY , from the Committee on Public Lands , reported a bill for the relief of James Kitchens , which was twice read and ordered to be engrossed . Mr. GILMER presented sundry documents in relation to the ...
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... favor of in- in its favor . fants , married women , and persons beyond It appears upon the journals of Congress what seas and of unsound mind , it is also true that indeed has long since been inscribed upon the after the year 1794 ...
... favor of in- in its favor . fants , married women , and persons beyond It appears upon the journals of Congress what seas and of unsound mind , it is also true that indeed has long since been inscribed upon the after the year 1794 ...
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... favor of those who laid the foun- ion that it was a violent and unreasonable predations of this great fabric of free government , the sumption to say that the first officer was reduced by the arrangement , and that the second died in ...
... favor of those who laid the foun- ion that it was a violent and unreasonable predations of this great fabric of free government , the sumption to say that the first officer was reduced by the arrangement , and that the second died in ...
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Page 31 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 25 - States, as may be by law required of him ; to make report, and give information to either branch of the legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required), respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office ; and generally to perform all such services relative to the finances, as he shall be directed to perform.
Page 31 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States...
Page 31 - Constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Page 25 - Affairs, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President of the United States...
Page 25 - Bank or branches thereof, unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 51 - Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.
Page 25 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...
Page 34 - That the General Assembly doth particularly PROTEST against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts...
Page 26 - It is evidently the intention of the Constitution that the first magistrate should be responsible for the executive department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he is not responsible to the country.