General Personal Index of the Journals of Congress: From the Ninth to the Sixteenth Congress Inclusive

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - Government publications - 191 pages
 

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Page 180 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation; amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 91 - that the laws of the several States . . shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply...
Page 61 - An Act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes depending in the Courts of the United States...
Page 3 - McGinnies, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following report: The Committee on Rules...
Page 82 - Columbia, reported a bill to authorize the sale of part of the Glebe of Rock Creek Church, in the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia; which was read the first and second time and committed to a committe • of the whole, on Monday next.
Page 60 - Expenditures: bill (S. 52) to regulate mode of making and accounting for, 1808-9, 10. 2, SJ 350. Fines, penalties, and forfeitures: directing remission of, in cer^tni
Page 77 - Florida: for information on alleged application to draw money from Treasury for purchase of, betöre appropriation made, 1805-6, 9.

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