Congressional Serial Set, Issue 589U.S. Government Printing Office, 1851 - United States |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
30th Congress accused Alvarado amount Apparent per cent Apparent specific gravity appropriation April BRAXTON BRAGG Brevet California Captain cattle channel charge coast survey collector communication Congress David Butler Density District of Monterey District of San establishments feet Fort Leavenworth fund governor grants gulf harbor Hinderwell honor horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hydrography hydrometers Indians instructions James Buchanan January José Figueroa Juan Judge Advocate July June lands leagues letter Lieut Little Rock arsenal marine hospital ment Mexican Mexico miles military storekeeper missions Mississippi month Navy Department obedient servant October officers ordnance Orleans parties Pass piers port present President received regulations respect respectfully river San José Santa seamen Secretary Senate Sept sitios specific gravity superintendent TABLE VIII-Continued Temperature territory tion transport Treasury Department True per cent undersigned United vessels villages Volume Washington
Popular passages
Page 16 - Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream to the ocean, with free access into and through the said river or rivers, it being understood that all the usual portages along the line thus described shall, in like manner, be free and open.
Page 6 - Sound Agricultural Company, on the north side of the Columbia River, shall be confirmed to the said company. In case, however, the situation of those farms and lands should be considered by the United States to be of public and political importance, and the United States...
Page 15 - Straits south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude remain free and open to both Parties. Article II. From the point at which the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude shall be found to intersect the great northern branch of the Columbia River, the navigation of the said branch shall be free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company and to all British subjects trading with the same...
Page 16 - British subjects, with their goods and produce, shall be treated on the same footing as citizens of the United States, it being however always understood that nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing, or intended to prevent, the Government of the United States from making any regulations respecting the navigation of the said river or rivers, not inconsistent with the present treaty.
Page 10 - ... of the other, to be used for hostile purposes. According to practice, he may use deception, under the penalty of being lawfully hanged if detected. To give this odious name and character to a confidential agent of a neutral power, bearing the commission of his country, and sent for a purpose fully warranted by the law of nations...
Page 6 - They could not, if they would, conceal their character, their condition, or their destiny. They could not, if they so desired, shut out from the view of mankind the causes which have placed them, in so short a national career, in the station which they now hold among the civilized states of the world. They could not, if they desired it, suppress either the thoughts or the hopes which arise in men's minds, in other countries, from contemplating their successful example of free government.
Page 4 - This department has, on former occasions, informed the ministers of foreign powers, that a communication from the President to either house of Congress is regarded as a domestic communication, of which, ordinarily, no foreign state has cognizance...
Page 7 - Austria herself, in all seas where she has ports, as well as they may be seen, also, in all other quarters of the globe. Life, liberty, property, and all personal rights, are amply secured to all citizens, and protected by just and stable laws ; and credit, public and private, is as well established as in any government...
Page 21 - August, 1789, in the necessary support and maintenance and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers erected, placed, or sunk before the passage of the act within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States...
Page 13 - Vienna may rest assured that, in the mean time, while performing with strict and exact fidelity all their neutral duties, nothing will deter either the Government or the people of the United States from exercising, at their own discretion, the rights belonging to them as an independent nation, and of forming and expressing their own opinions, freely and at all times, upon the great political events which may transpire among the civilized nations of the earth.