Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 39F. Hunt, 1858 |
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... debt of 723 66 Amelia Island , Fla . , range lights on .. commerce for four years 227 613 66 radways 244 American extravagance . 397 66 Amoor River , explorations of .. East India Company . 649 176 60 income tax .... 477 Apalachicola ...
... debt of 723 66 Amelia Island , Fla . , range lights on .. commerce for four years 227 613 66 radways 244 American extravagance . 397 66 Amoor River , explorations of .. East India Company . 649 176 60 income tax .... 477 Apalachicola ...
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... debt 349 46 Hamilton , & Dayton Railr'd . 245 , 507 English and American railways , cost & man- agement of ... 505 ... Debts and finances of the States of the Union , Wisconsin ... 635 868 233 747 269 613 General average , ( law case ) ...
... debt 349 46 Hamilton , & Dayton Railr'd . 245 , 507 English and American railways , cost & man- agement of ... 505 ... Debts and finances of the States of the Union , Wisconsin ... 635 868 233 747 269 613 General average , ( law case ) ...
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... of Lowell . 251 66 in Massachusetts 250 Manufacturing , incidents of stocks .... 66 126 252 wax , duty on , ( treasury circular ) ... Journal of mercantile law , PAGE public debt of , for 1855 to 1858 598 INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIX .
... of Lowell . 251 66 in Massachusetts 250 Manufacturing , incidents of stocks .... 66 126 252 wax , duty on , ( treasury circular ) ... Journal of mercantile law , PAGE public debt of , for 1855 to 1858 598 INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIX .
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PAGE public debt of , for 1855 to 1858 598 | Oyster trade of London manufactures in 66 the . 250 Manufacturing at the ... debt of .. 389 222 Palu , duty on , ( treasury circular ) .. Q. 246 109 472 Quarantine reform . By Dr. A. N. Bell ...
PAGE public debt of , for 1855 to 1858 598 | Oyster trade of London manufactures in 66 the . 250 Manufacturing at the ... debt of .. 389 222 Palu , duty on , ( treasury circular ) .. Q. 246 109 472 Quarantine reform . By Dr. A. N. Bell ...
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... debt ....... 396 Schouwen Bank , Holland , bell beac'n ves . off 739 Scientific paradoxes .... 770 Teneriffe , cochineal cultivation in ... Tennessee , finances of .... 761 598 Scotland , iights on the northwest coast of ... 235 Seized ...
... debt ....... 396 Schouwen Bank , Holland , bell beac'n ves . off 739 Scientific paradoxes .... 770 Teneriffe , cochineal cultivation in ... Tennessee , finances of .... 761 598 Scotland , iights on the northwest coast of ... 235 Seized ...
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Page 323 - ... 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 270 - 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 cisatlantic 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 270 - 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.
Page 363 - 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 649 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 271 - Nor is the occasion to be slighted which this proposition offers, of declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless alliance, calling itself holy.
Page 95 - The State may contract debts to supply casual deficits or failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for; but the aggregate amount of such debts, direct and contingent, whether contracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at different periods of time, shall never exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
Page 323 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 271 - ... 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. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war...
Page 387 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...