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Seite 443 - 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 through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office...
Seite 41 - We have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servants. "RW BARNWELL, ) " JH ADAMS, > Commissioners. " JAMES L. ORR, ) "To His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Seite 460 - ... shall have in his possession any such mail lock or key with the intent unlawfully or improperly to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same, or to cause the same to be unlawfully or improperly used, sold, or otherwise disposed of; or...
Seite 487 - ... rates ; and every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in weight shall be deemed a single letter, and every additional weight of half an ounce, or additional weight of less than half an ounce, shall be charged with an additional single postage.
Seite 442 - York, and other chief letter offices at some convenient place or places in each of Her Majesty's provinces or colonies in America.
Seite 14 - ... before. A letter from the Superintendent of the Observatory, which accompanies this communication, states the important fact, that vessels sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific ports of The United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in 40 days less, upon the average, than those sailing without them, and that there is reason to hope the time may be still further reduced.
Seite 34 - During the remainder of December the ice remained quiet immediately around us, and breaks were all strongly cemented by new ice. In our neighborhood, however, cracks were daily visible. Our drift to the eastward averaged nearly six miles per day, so that on the last of the month we were at the entrance of the sound, Cape Osborn bearing north from us. January, 1851. On passing out of the sound, and opening Baffin's Bay, to the north was seen a dark horizon, indicating much open water in that direction....
Seite 532 - That so soon as the next and each subsequent enumeration of the inhabitants of the several States directed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken, shall be completed and returned to the office of the Department of the Interior, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the aggregate representative population of the United States, by adding to the whole number of free persons in all the States, including those bound to service for a...
Seite 31 - Island, after the acting master of the Advance. The eastern shore of Wellington Channel appeared to run parallel with the western, but it became quite low, and being covered with snow, could not be distinguished with certainty, so that its continuity with the high land to the north was not ascertained.

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