Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Band 1Way and Gideon, 1823 |
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... month : MATTHEW TILGHMAN , esq . in the chair : JOHN DUCKET , clerk : Resolved , That Matthew Tilghman , Thomas Johnson , jun . Robert Goldsbo- rough , William Paca , and Samuel Chase , esqrs . or any two or more of them , be deputies ...
... month : MATTHEW TILGHMAN , esq . in the chair : JOHN DUCKET , clerk : Resolved , That Matthew Tilghman , Thomas Johnson , jun . Robert Goldsbo- rough , William Paca , and Samuel Chase , esqrs . or any two or more of them , be deputies ...
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... month , and con- tinued to this day , it has been with universal pleasure , and an unanimous vote , resolved , that we should consider the violation of your rights , by the act for altering the government of your province , as a ...
... month , and con- tinued to this day , it has been with universal pleasure , and an unanimous vote , resolved , that we should consider the violation of your rights , by the act for altering the government of your province , as a ...
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... month , * Resolved unanimously , That the honorable Matthew Tilghman , Thomas Johnson , junior , Robert Goldsborough , William Paca , Samuel Chase , John Hall , and Thomas Stone , esqrs . or any three or more of them , be delegates to ...
... month , * Resolved unanimously , That the honorable Matthew Tilghman , Thomas Johnson , junior , Robert Goldsborough , William Paca , Samuel Chase , John Hall , and Thomas Stone , esqrs . or any three or more of them , be delegates to ...
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... month ; a serjeant eight dollars per month ; a corporal seven dollars and one- third of a dollar per month ; a drummer or trumpeter the same ; privates six dollars and two - thirds of a dollar per month ; to find their own arms and ...
... month ; a serjeant eight dollars per month ; a corporal seven dollars and one- third of a dollar per month ; a drummer or trumpeter the same ; privates six dollars and two - thirds of a dollar per month ; to find their own arms and ...
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... month . That there be one adjutant - general . That his pay be one hundred and twenty - five dollars per month . That there be one commissary - general of stores and provisions . That his pay be eighty dollars per month . That there be ...
... month . That there be one adjutant - general . That his pay be one hundred and twenty - five dollars per month . That there be one commissary - general of stores and provisions . That his pay be eighty dollars per month . That there be ...
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Seite 30 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Seite 20 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Seite 84 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 84 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Seite 139 - Colony, for contributing their Proportion to the common Defence, (such Proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court, or General Assembly of such Province or Colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make Provision also, for the support of the Civil Government, and the Administration of Justice...
Seite 43 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Seite 20 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 407 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 85 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Seite 21 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.