| United States. Congress. House - United States - 956 pages
...hereby authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of the officers attached 10 the late surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and the South seas, who were employed in the scientific duties, to allow and credit them with extra pay, equal to that... | |
| Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...different from Out prescribed by law. — US v. Tingey, 5 Peters, 115. 133. He is authorized, to send out ; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, of suffering for that purpose to employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as... | |
| United States - Law - 1846 - 882 pages
...further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and [the] South seas, and for that purpose to employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as... | |
| Pan-American Railway - 1890 - 234 pages
...etc., for an interoceanic canal. Act of Congress May 14, 1836, anthorized the President to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific...commanded by Commodore Wilkes. President Pierce, in 1853, anthorized the Secretary of the Navy to send Lient. Isaac Strain to make surveys of a canal route by... | |
| United States. Commission of Fine Arts - Art and state - 1911 - 608 pages
...of the former garden.1 The naval appropriation act of May 14, 1836, authorized the President to send a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas in Government vessels. Congress granted £100,000 and authorized the use of any other moneys in the... | |
| United States. Commission of Fine Arts - 1917 - 546 pages
...of the former garden.1 The naval appropriation act of May 14, 1836, authorized the President to send a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas in Government vessels. Congress granted $100,000 and authorized the use of any other moneys in the... | |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette - Botany - 1917 - 224 pages
...of supply for a trade that had formerly been so profitable. JN Reynolds, Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas, New York, 1836. The sealing voyages differed from those to the Northwest Coast in not being in the... | |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette - 1917 - 492 pages
...instance of success under free trade. In the Harvard Library. REYNOLDS, JN Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas Delivered in the Hall of Representatives on the Evening of April 3, 1836, by J. N. Reynolds, with Correspondence... | |
| United States. Congress - 1920 - 276 pages
...the former jrarden.1 The naval appropriation act of Mav II. IVili. autliori/.cd the President to send a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas in (iovetmneiit vessels. < 'on<rress granted SliMl.OIKl and authorized the use of any other moneys... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library - Botanical gardens - 1920 - 176 pages
...of the former garden.1 The naval appropriation act of May 14, 1836, authorized the President to send a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas in Government vessels. Congress granted $100,000 and authorized the use of any other moneys in the... | |
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