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00 March 26th Congress ACCOUNT-Continued agent Amount carried forward appropriation April Baltimore Bank of America Boston canal Captain Charles Charleston Chickasaws Choctaw civil department claims Clerks and messenger Collector Commander Commissioner Contingent expenses Denis Prieur duty E. V. Sumner Elias Kane Erie estimate expenditure Florida FOURTH QUARTER 1839 George George Loyall harbor Henry honor Illinois J. R. Livingston James John Joseph July June 30 labor Lake land Laws U. S. vol Leonard Jarvis Lieutenant Lord Aberdeen M. W. Ash Majesty's Government ment miles military department Missouri nation naval October Ohio Ordinary seaman Orleans payment pension Philadelphia postage Postmaster present received repairs respectfully Richard Smith river road Samuel SECOND QUARTER 1840 Secretary Sept September session 26th Congress statement superintendent Thomas tion Treasury tribes undersigned United vessels Virginia warrants paid Washington William William Selden York
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Página 20 - Caroline was governed by a hostile intent or had made common cause with those who were in the occupancy of Navy Island, then so far as he is concerned there can be no claim to indemnity for the destruction of his boat which this Government would feel itself bound to prosecute, since he would have acted not only in derogation of the rights of Great Britain, but in clear violation of the laws of the United States...
Página 45 - Russia, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the empire of Russia, of any article the produce or manufacture of the United States, than are, or shall be payable on the like article, being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country.
Página 318 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Página 6 - In pursuance of a pledge given to you in my last message to Congress, which pledge I urge as an apology for adventuring to present you the details of any plan, the Secretary of the Treasury will be ready to submit to you, should you require it, a plan of finance which, while it throws around the public treasure reasonable guards for its protection, and rests on powers acknowledged in practice to exist from the origin of the Government...
Página 50 - Exchequer, and made payable to the order oif the principal agent at each agency, and shall be by him endorsed when issued at such agency, and which notes shall be redeemable, and shall be redeemed, in gold and silver, on demand, at the agency where issued.
Página 9 - I can do no more than express the belief that each State will feel itself bound by every consideration of honor as well as of interest to meet its engagements with punctuality. The failure, however, of any one State to do so should in no degree affect the credit of the rest, and the foreign capitalist will have no just cause to experience alarm as to all other State stocks because any one or more of the States may neglect to provide with punctuality the means of redeeming their engagements.
Página 19 - ... their commencement, and at the option of the party, of all such cases as may hereafter arise, and which may involve the faithful observance and execution of our international obligations, from the State to the Federal Judiciary. This Government, by our institutions, is charged with the maintenance of peace and the preservation of amicable relations with the nations of the earth, and ought to possess, without question, all the reasonable and proper means of maintaining the one and preserving the...
Página 19 - I regret that it is not in my power to make known to you an equally satisfactory conclusion in the case of the Caroline steamer, with the circumstances connected with the destruction of which, in December, 1837, by an armed force fitted out in the Province of Upper Canada, you are already made acquainted. No such atonement as was due for the public wrong done to the United States by this invasion of her territory, so wholly irreconcilable with her rights as an independent power, has 37et been made.
Página 1 - ... the maritime code at the mere will and pleasure of other governments. We deny the right of any such interpolation to any one, or all the nations of the earth, without our consent. We claim to have a voice in all amendments or alterations of that code ; and when we are given to understand, as in this instance, by a foreign government, that its treaties with other nations...
Página 2 - The failure on the part of Spain to pay with punctuality the interest due under the convention of 1834 for the settlement of claims between the two countries has made it the duty of the Executive to call the particular attention of that Government to the subject. A disposition has been manifested by it, which is believed to be entirely sincere, to fulfill its obligations in this respect so soon as its internal condition and the state of its finances will permit.