The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1873 |
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... passed providing for the funding of the regular State debt , and another authorizing a renewal for twenty years of the bonds which fell due in May , 1872. The most important of the defeated measures provided for a substitution of 8 per ...
... passed providing for the funding of the regular State debt , and another authorizing a renewal for twenty years of the bonds which fell due in May , 1872. The most important of the defeated measures provided for a substitution of 8 per ...
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... passed providing for a central normal school at the University of Ala- bama , establishing a normal school for white fe- male teachers , to be located in accordance with sealed proposals made to the Superintendent of Public Instruction ...
... passed providing for a central normal school at the University of Ala- bama , establishing a normal school for white fe- male teachers , to be located in accordance with sealed proposals made to the Superintendent of Public Instruction ...
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... passed by a vote of 27 in its favor , and 18 against it . Various amendments were offered to this resolution , and rejected , as follows : one for delay , by a vote of 28 to 19 ; one for the omission of the damnatory clauses , by a vote ...
... passed by a vote of 27 in its favor , and 18 against it . Various amendments were offered to this resolution , and rejected , as follows : one for delay , by a vote of 28 to 19 ; one for the omission of the damnatory clauses , by a vote ...
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... passed the first reading of other obstacles to the material development the bill for the building of six new lines of of the country , " writes his Excellency Sr. Don railway for the upper provinces , to connect Manuel R. García ...
... passed the first reading of other obstacles to the material development the bill for the building of six new lines of of the country , " writes his Excellency Sr. Don railway for the upper provinces , to connect Manuel R. García ...
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... passed from perihelion , espe- cially after March 21st , came to a minimum when it was in aphelion , and increased again when it passed thus affording a fair test of my theory . to perihelion , and notably after equinoctial - day ; Sun ...
... passed from perihelion , espe- cially after March 21st , came to a minimum when it was in aphelion , and increased again when it passed thus affording a fair test of my theory . to perihelion , and notably after equinoctial - day ; Sun ...
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Page 238 - British flag, in the enhanced payments of insurance, in the prolongation of the war, and in the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellion...
Page 242 - And whereas the effects of a violation of neutrality committed by means of the construction, equipment, and armament of a vessel are not done away with by any commission which the government of the belligerent power, benefited by the violation of neutrality, may...
Page 260 - 290," this same vessel, later known as the Confederate cruiser Alabama, was on several occasions freely admitted into the ports of colonies of Great Britain, instead of being proceeded against as it ought to have been in any and every port within British jurisdiction in which it might have been found; And whereas the government of Her Britannic Majesty...
Page 260 - Tribunal is, therefore, of opinion, by a majority of three to two voices, that there is no ground for awarding to the United States any sum by way of indemnity under this head. "And whereas prospective earnings cannot properly be made the subject of compensation, inasmuch as they depend in their nature upon future and uncertain contingencies...
Page 259 - due diligence" referred to in the first and third of the said rules ought to be exercised by neutral Governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfill the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Page 124 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of converting a portion of the forts of the United States...
Page 17 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Page 181 - An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes,' " or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
Page 401 - ... and shall include the right of way, road-bed, bridges, culverts, rolling stock, depots, station grounds, shops, buildings, gravel beds, and all other property, real and personal, exclusively used in the operation of such railway.
Page 365 - Fame is a vapor ; popularity an accident ; riches take wings ; the only earthly certainty is oblivion ; no man can foresee what a day may bring forth ; while those who cheer to-day will often curse to-morrow : and yet I cherish the hope that the journal I projected and established will live and flourish long after I shall have mouldered into forgotten dust, being guided by a larger wisdom...