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... Peru , with a cargo on board shipped by the said Peter Harmony and Bartolomé Béla , and himself , on joint account ; the said Béla having a share therein to the amount of about five thousand dol- lars , and being known to this deponent ...
... Peru , with a cargo on board shipped by the said Peter Harmony and Bartolomé Béla , and himself , on joint account ; the said Béla having a share therein to the amount of about five thousand dol- lars , and being known to this deponent ...
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... Peru in the year 1822 , and sub- sequently ; and that he recollects the arrival in Callao , the port of Lima , of the brig Dick , of Baltimore , which was some time in the said year 1822 ; that an individual by the name of Béla was ...
... Peru in the year 1822 , and sub- sequently ; and that he recollects the arrival in Callao , the port of Lima , of the brig Dick , of Baltimore , which was some time in the said year 1822 ; that an individual by the name of Béla was ...
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... Peru , and subse- quently round Cape Horn , to Rio de Janeiro . And this deponent further saith , that he has since heard that said brig proceeded afterwards to Buenos Ayres , where her papers were taken from her by the late John M ...
... Peru , and subse- quently round Cape Horn , to Rio de Janeiro . And this deponent further saith , that he has since heard that said brig proceeded afterwards to Buenos Ayres , where her papers were taken from her by the late John M ...
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... Peru , Chili , and Brazil ; Buenos Ayres being now vacant . Should these States , which lately constituted the Republic of Colombia continue separated , a mission to Venezuela will be indispensable , as well for the superintendence of ...
... Peru , Chili , and Brazil ; Buenos Ayres being now vacant . Should these States , which lately constituted the Republic of Colombia continue separated , a mission to Venezuela will be indispensable , as well for the superintendence of ...
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... Peru 48 Asia , generally 49 Africa , generally 50 West Indies , generally 51 China 52 South Seas 53 Sandwich Islands . 54 Arabia ˇ 55 Uncertain ports 814 814 7,160 10,969 3,325 50 8,862 80 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 20 51 52 53 54 55 zinc ...
... Peru 48 Asia , generally 49 Africa , generally 50 West Indies , generally 51 China 52 South Seas 53 Sandwich Islands . 54 Arabia ˇ 55 Uncertain ports 814 814 7,160 10,969 3,325 50 8,862 80 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 20 51 52 53 54 55 zinc ...
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26 Spain 33 Fayal 45 Argentine Republic 49 Africa ad valorem Alderney am't Atlantic Azores Bank bill British American Colonies British West Indies Campeachy Cape de Verd cashier cent Central Republic Chesapeake and Ohio Colombia committee Congress cotton Danish West Indies debts District dividends Dollars Dutch East Dutch West Indies East Indies 9 Entitled to drawback expense Fayal feet foreign France Free Free French West Indies Gibraltar Government Hanse Towns Harper's Ferry Hayti Honduras honor House of Representatives IMPORTS-Continued January John Legislature Levant Manilla and Philippine manufactures March Mediterranean memorialists miles Ohio Canal Company Peru Point of Rocks Potomac Pounds Quantity Railroad Company railway Rates of duty Republic of America resolution respectfully river Russia Secretary South Seas Spain statement Sweden and Norway Swedish West Indies tariff of 1832 Teneriffe tion Towns & ports Treasury Trieste United valorem VALUE OF MERCHANDISE Verd Islands vessel
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Page 9 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 8 - UNDER these impressions and declaring that the rights aforesaid cannot be abridged or violated, and that the Explanations aforesaid are consistent with the said Constitution, And in confidence that the Amendments which shall have been proposed to the said Constitution will receive an early and mature Consideration...
Page 8 - State, by its legislature, to adopt such a policy as it deems best, provided it does not, in so doing, come into conflict with the constitution of the State or the Constitution of the United States.
Page 3 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 9 - In discussing this question, the counsel for the State of Maryland have deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the constitution, to consider that instrument not as emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent States. The powers of the general government, it has been said, are delegated by the States, who alone are truly sovereign; and must be exercised in subordination to the States, who alone possess supreme dominion.
Page 7 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will...
Page 7 - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
Page 7 - Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this Seventeenth day of September, AD 1866, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety first.
Page 9 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their States. But the measures they adopt do not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people themselves, or become the measures of the State governments. "From these conventions the Constitution derives its whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people; is 'ordained...