House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Količina 16 |
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Stran xvii
... population of the British possessions north of the United States boundary ... No. 23. Statement showing the area and population of the West Indies , Mexican states , Central America , and New Granada . No. 24. Set of 28 maps of all the ...
... population of the British possessions north of the United States boundary ... No. 23. Statement showing the area and population of the West Indies , Mexican states , Central America , and New Granada . No. 24. Set of 28 maps of all the ...
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... Population engaged in mining , exclusively and in part , capital and labor employed , value of improvements , number of mills and steam engines in opera- tion , yield of the mines , average of dividends , and losses . 5. Proportion of ...
... Population engaged in mining , exclusively and in part , capital and labor employed , value of improvements , number of mills and steam engines in opera- tion , yield of the mines , average of dividends , and losses . 5. Proportion of ...
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... population . Even in those early days , how- ever , as the surface placers receded towards their sources , time and money were expended in the rediscovery of inventions which had been known to the old world for centuries . With all the ...
... population . Even in those early days , how- ever , as the surface placers receded towards their sources , time and money were expended in the rediscovery of inventions which had been known to the old world for centuries . With all the ...
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... population . At first the yield was large and easily obtained ; as the surface deposits were worked up to their sources quartz veins were discovered , and machinery and skill became requisite ; the difficulty of access to the more ...
... population . At first the yield was large and easily obtained ; as the surface deposits were worked up to their sources quartz veins were discovered , and machinery and skill became requisite ; the difficulty of access to the more ...
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... population , whose disregard of conventional restraint leads to the assumption of risks and to bold and hazardous undertakings , by which new countries are most rapidly opened up to settlement and civilization . Providence so ordains it ...
... population , whose disregard of conventional restraint leads to the assumption of risks and to bold and hazardous undertakings , by which new countries are most rapidly opened up to settlement and civilization . Providence so ordains it ...
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Stran 183 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Stran 537 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island; and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Stran 40 - When the old sheriffs house was destroyed at Lexington, Captain JA Wilson secured the slave whip which had been the official Lafayette County flagellum. It is composed of a wooden handle attached to a flat piece of rubber strap about eighteen inches long, an inch and a half wide, and a quarter of an inch thick. It has the appearance of having been cut from rubber belting, being reen forced with fibre as 1s rubber hose.
Stran 183 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Stran 496 - Shining mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a great distance.
Stran 566 - No emigrants or other whites, except the Hudson's Bay Company, or persons having ceded rights from the Indians, will be permitted to settle or remain in the Indian country, or on land not ceded by treaty, confirmed by the Senate, and approved by the President of the United States.
Stran 279 - ... west; and the cloud supplying the rain is mostly of the cumulo-stratus or nimbus form, and quite low in the sky. What is singular, the rain begins most frequently to the northward, although the cloud comes from the south. The horizon in the south may be entirely clear under these circumstances, the cloud forming in view, and growing denser and denser in its northward travel, until it precipitates the rain. The following table exhibits the mean quantity of rain falling at different stations, and...
Stran 265 - The largest crystals are generally enclosed in a stiff blue clay, at a depth of between three and four feet, and a short distance above them is a nearly pure stratum of smaller ones, some two and...
Stran xvii - Statement exhibiting land concessions by acts of Congress to States for canal purposes from the year 1827 to June 30, 1869.
Stran xxxiv - I respectfully transmit herewith a report and accompanying documents from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the...