The National Almanac and Annual Record for ...William Vincent McKean G. W. Childs, 1864 |
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... name of an astro- nomical observatory , if we except some tempo- rary structures erected during colonial times for special purposes . Prominent among those who early advocated and persistently urged the foundation of such an institution ...
... name of an astro- nomical observatory , if we except some tempo- rary structures erected during colonial times for special purposes . Prominent among those who early advocated and persistently urged the foundation of such an institution ...
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... name , in the city of Washington , to which subsequent ap- propriations were regularly granted in the annual bills providing for the Navy Department ; -the authors of the laws intending an astronomical observatory , and being well aware ...
... name , in the city of Washington , to which subsequent ap- propriations were regularly granted in the annual bills providing for the Navy Department ; -the authors of the laws intending an astronomical observatory , and being well aware ...
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... name " Astro- nomical Observations made at the U.S. Naval Ob- servatory . " It was on the whole a very creditable work for American astronomy . Besides a fair amount of observations with the two transit instruments , in the meridian and ...
... name " Astro- nomical Observations made at the U.S. Naval Ob- servatory . " It was on the whole a very creditable work for American astronomy . Besides a fair amount of observations with the two transit instruments , in the meridian and ...
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William Vincent McKean. Name . THE NATIONAL ALMANAC . 90 Pennsylvania Hospital Library * . Newark , N.J. 1841 10,870 350 Marietta College Library . Dayton , Ohio . 1800 10,000 3,000 250 102 Washington Library .. None None Baltimore ...
William Vincent McKean. Name . THE NATIONAL ALMANAC . 90 Pennsylvania Hospital Library * . Newark , N.J. 1841 10,870 350 Marietta College Library . Dayton , Ohio . 1800 10,000 3,000 250 102 Washington Library .. None None Baltimore ...
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... names are who did not vote are printed in SMALL CAPITALS printed in italic characters . The names of those while it may be an error to class them with the ( excepting those of Mr. Colfax and Mr. Stebbins ) ; opponents of the ...
... names are who did not vote are printed in SMALL CAPITALS printed in italic characters . The names of those while it may be an error to class them with the ( excepting those of Mr. Colfax and Mr. Stebbins ) ; opponents of the ...
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Seite 442 - States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the supreme Court of the United States, upon a writ of error...
Seite 314 - ... major part of them, and the judges of the court of appeals, or the major part of them.
Seite 86 - ... as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold, reserved, or otherwise appropriated, or to which the rights of pre-emption or homestead settlements have attached as aforesaid...
Seite 268 - That there is hereby established at the seat of government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Seite 180 - An act to establish the Treasury Department," approved September second, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it was provided that it should be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and keep the moneys of the United States, and to disburse the same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, countersigned by the Comptroller, and recorded by the Register, and not otherwise...
Seite 460 - That the judicial power of said Territory shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and in justices of the peace.
Seite 82 - The supreme court shall consist of a chief justice and two associate justices, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, and who shall hold a term at the seat of government of said Territory annually, and they shall hold their offices during the period of four years.
Seite 180 - He receives and adjusts all accounts relating to the pay, clothing, and recruiting of the army, as well as armories, arsenals, and ordnance, and all accounts relating to the Indian Department, and reports the balances to the Second Comptroller for his decision thereon.
Seite 40 - Observatories, though not expensive, cannot prosper in our country until we can obtain rest from the pursuit of mercantile affairs, or their charge is undertaken by the Government. The duties are confining; if properly executed, arduous: and but few are qualified by experience or habits to undertake them. If officers can be found with taste for such duties, an Observatory will give more information to the world, under a military organization, in one year, than under any other direction in two.
Seite 108 - Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government and the preservation of the Union.