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... Deposits . $ 127,397,185 1843 ... 691 228,861,943 58,563,608 56,168,628 1851 .. 879 227,807,553 155,165,251 128,957,712 1854 .. 1,208 301,367,071 204,689,207 188,188,744 1855 .. 1,307 332,177,288 186,952,223 190,400,342 1856 ... 1,398 ...
... Deposits . $ 127,397,185 1843 ... 691 228,861,943 58,563,608 56,168,628 1851 .. 879 227,807,553 155,165,251 128,957,712 1854 .. 1,208 301,367,071 204,689,207 188,188,744 1855 .. 1,307 332,177,288 186,952,223 190,400,342 1856 ... 1,398 ...
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... deposit , the owner drawing his deposit in gold for export would make nearly ten per cent by the operation , that being the rate at which silver is valued over gold . The silver is indeed a legal tender only to a small amount , but a ...
... deposit , the owner drawing his deposit in gold for export would make nearly ten per cent by the operation , that being the rate at which silver is valued over gold . The silver is indeed a legal tender only to a small amount , but a ...
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... deposit his stores , and leave two companies for a guard . Thence to sail with the fleet and army to Cabarus Bay , ( within three miles of Louisburg , ) where he was to arrive in the evening , and anchor under cover of darkness , forth ...
... deposit his stores , and leave two companies for a guard . Thence to sail with the fleet and army to Cabarus Bay , ( within three miles of Louisburg , ) where he was to arrive in the evening , and anchor under cover of darkness , forth ...
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... Deposits . Dividends . 7,032 $ 947,594 $ 33,347 15,017 2,309,168 79,428 23,844 8,989,165 192,425 30,616 5,629,748 621,652 35,535 7,158,284 In 1829 , one in nine of the population deposited ; in 1852 , one in 4.75 . The deposits , in ...
... Deposits . Dividends . 7,032 $ 947,594 $ 33,347 15,017 2,309,168 79,428 23,844 8,989,165 192,425 30,616 5,629,748 621,652 35,535 7,158,284 In 1829 , one in nine of the population deposited ; in 1852 , one in 4.75 . The deposits , in ...
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... deposit of State stocks as security , to cover the issues . The facilities which this law affords to roll up an apparent capital , by buying stock , and with the bills obtained from the Controller on the pledge of them , repeating the ...
... deposit of State stocks as security , to cover the issues . The facilities which this law affords to roll up an apparent capital , by buying stock , and with the bills obtained from the Controller on the pledge of them , repeating the ...
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Page 321 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 268 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should, therefore, have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 268 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it.
Page 385 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 269 - I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.
Page 361 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this...
Page 525 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 95 - ... obtained, or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 397 - MR. LIONEL J. BEALE, MRCS THE LAWS OF HEALTH IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MIND AND BODY. A Series of Letters from an Old Practitioner to a Patient.
Page 268 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship ; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side in the same cause.