Reports and Recommendations: Together with the Messages of the President and the Letters of the Secretary of State Transmitting the Same to Congress ... |
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Page 23 - Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives : I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing .a...
Page 60 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 13 - State, inclosing a report adopted by the International American Conference, recently in session at this capital, recommending the establishment of an international American...
Page 112 - America, between latitude i° 8' and 12° 16' north, and longitude 60° and 73° if west, and is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the east by the...
Page 163 - States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and (the) South seas...
Page 60 - States, after actual surveys ; thence running westerly upon the most direct, central, and practicable route, through the territories of the United States to the western boundary of the Territory of Nevada, there to meet and connect with the line of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California.
Page 4 - When the court shall consist of several arbitrators, a majority of the whole number may act notwithstanding the absence or withdrawal of the minority. In such case the majority shall continue in the performance of their duties until they shall have reached a final determination of the questions submitted for their consideration.
Page 61 - A uniform nomenclature for the description of articles of merchandise imported and exported; and 3. The establishment at Washington of an international bureau of information. The conference also at its final session decided to establish in the city of Washington, as a fitting memorial of its meeting, a Latin-American library, to be formed by contributions from the several nations, of historical, geographical, and literary works, maps, manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and...
Page 12 - Tenth. That all materials necessary for the construction and operation of the railroad should be exempt from import duties, subject to such regulations as may be necessary to prevent the abuse of this privilege. Eleventh. That all personal and real property of the railroad employed in its construction and operation should be exempt from all taxation, either national, provincial (State), or municipal. Twelfth. That the execution of a work of such magnitude deserves to be further encouraged by subsidies,...