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Page 382 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 34 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 201 - March 31, 1814, providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory...
Page 39 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Page 34 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 360 - An act more effectually to preserve the neutral relations of the United States...
Page 122 - Act for the better government of the Navy of the United States;
Page 70 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 87 - Union, be referred to a select committee, to consist of five members, to consider and report thereon, by bill or otherwise. Messrs. TAIT, BROWN, CHACE, MASON, of New Hampshire, and STOKES, were appointed the committee. The bill to authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public lands, was read a third time, and the blank filled with U <f| r.|K) 3i $il,OUU.
Page 39 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...