Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation: Domestick affairs. History of the ConfederationThomas B. Wait, 1821 - 464 страници |
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... referred to them , the committee desired him to move for leave to sit again . The resolutions being severally read and agreed to , are as follows : Resolved , That a post be immediately taken , and for- tified , at or near King's Bridge ...
... referred to them , the committee desired him to move for leave to sit again . The resolutions being severally read and agreed to , are as follows : Resolved , That a post be immediately taken , and for- tified , at or near King's Bridge ...
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... referred to the next meeting of this Con- gress . The Congress having reconsidered a resolve passed the 11th July , respecting the employing of fifty hus- sars- Resolved , That the delegates of this province be desired not to proceed in ...
... referred to the next meeting of this Con- gress . The Congress having reconsidered a resolve passed the 11th July , respecting the employing of fifty hus- sars- Resolved , That the delegates of this province be desired not to proceed in ...
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... referred to the secret committee . OCTOBER 10 , 1775 . Resolved , That the silver and gold collected be sent to general Schuyler , with an escort of four of the light horse of this city . Adjourned for an hour . EADEM DIE . The ...
... referred to the secret committee . OCTOBER 10 , 1775 . Resolved , That the silver and gold collected be sent to general Schuyler , with an escort of four of the light horse of this city . Adjourned for an hour . EADEM DIE . The ...
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... referred , brought in a report : Whereupon , Resolved , That the seizing and securing the bar- racks and castle of St. Augustine will greatly contri- bute to the safety of these colonies ; therefore it is earnestly recommended to the ...
... referred , brought in a report : Whereupon , Resolved , That the seizing and securing the bar- racks and castle of St. Augustine will greatly contri- bute to the safety of these colonies ; therefore it is earnestly recommended to the ...
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... referred to the committee for examining the most proper ports to be fortified . JUNE 3 , 1776 . Resolved , That the general be empowered to em- ploy in Canada a number of Indians , not exceeding two thousand . JUNE 6 , 1776 . Resolved ...
... referred to the committee for examining the most proper ports to be fortified . JUNE 3 , 1776 . Resolved , That the general be empowered to em- ploy in Canada a number of Indians , not exceeding two thousand . JUNE 6 , 1776 . Resolved ...
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Страница 397 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses ; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States — transmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted ; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State...
Страница 357 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions, as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the 'United States...
Страница 354 - United States in Congress assembled can be consulted ; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States...
Страница 359 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Страница 458 - States — regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated — establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro...
Страница 455 - ... the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
Страница 388 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Страница 399 - The committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States, in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled, is requisite.
Страница 450 - II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
Страница 362 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.