An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the Year ...

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford
American News Company, 1880 - Almanacs
 

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Page 382 - This class includes all newspapers, periodicals or matter exclusively in print and regularly issued at stated intervals as frequently as four times a year...
Page 56 - Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or a model or design, for a work of the fine arts...
Page 124 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 56 - Entered according to act of Congress, in the year , by , in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington...
Page 348 - I suppose is of between nine and ten thousand volumes, while it includes what is chiefly valuable in science and literature generally, extends more particularly to whatever belongs to the American statesman : in the diplomatic and parliamentary branches it is particularly full.
Page 53 - The purpose of these laws Is to promote the growth of forest trees on the public lands. They give the right to any settler who has cultivated for two years as much as five acres In trees to an...
Page 73 - ... by whatsoever name the same heretofore have been, now are, or may hereafter be called, known, or distinguished, used or applied, or to be used or applied as perfumes or as applications to the hair, mouth, or skin, or otherwise used, made, prepared, and sold or removed for consumption and sale in the United States...
Page 72 - Every person, firm, association other than national bank associations, and every corporation, State bank, or State banking association, shall pay a tax of 10 per centum on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them.
Page 327 - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value...
Page 349 - I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection; there is, in fact, no subject to which a member of Congress may not have occasion to refer.

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