Bohn's Hand-book of Washington: Illustrated with Engravings of the Public Buildings and the Government StatuaryC. Bohn, 1856 - 132 strani |
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Stran 99 - States (except those arising in the post-office department), and instructs the United States attorneys, marshals and clerks in all matters relating to them and their results. He receives returns from each term of the United States courts, showing the progress and condition of such suits ; has charge of all lands and other property assigned to the United States in payment of debts...
Stran 100 - Bureau of Navy-yards and Docks; Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing; Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography; and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The...
Stran 11 - The Senate, in their reply, said: " We meet you, sir, and the other branch of the National Legislature, in the city which is honored by the name of our late hero and sage, the illustrious Washington, with sensations and emotions which exceed our power of description.
Stran 9 - Creek. There is a stream above Georgetown which has always been called Goose Creek ; but, from a certificate of a survey now preserved in the mayor's office, at Washington, dated 1663, it appears that the inlet from the Potomac was then known by the name of Tiber, and probably the stream from the North emptying into it bore the same name ; so that Moore did injustice to the history of the place, and confounded streams when he wrote the well-known line — " And what was Goose Creek once, is Tiber...
Stran 105 - Auditor, embracing accounts with the draft offices and other depositories of the Department, the issuing of warrants and drafts in payment of balances, reported by the Auditor to be due to mail contractors and other persons...
Stran 10 - I congratulate the people of the United States on the assembling of Congress at the permanent seat of their Government, and I congratulate you, gentlemen, on the prospect of a residence not to be changed.
Stran 106 - The duty of receiving and examining the registers of the arrivals and departures of the mails, certificates of the service of...
Stran 10 - It is with you, gentlemen, to consider whether the local powers over the district of Columbia, vested by the constitution in the Congress of the United States, shall he immediately exercised.
Stran 10 - You will consider it as the capital of a great nation advancing with unexampled rapidity in arts, in commerce, in wealth, and in population, and possessing within itself those energies and resources which, if not thrown away or lamentably misdirected, will secure to it a long course of prosperity and self-government.
Stran 92 - Office is charged with the survey, management, and sale of the public domain, and the issuing of titles therefor, whether derived from confirmations of grants made by former governments, by sales, donations, or grants for schools, railroads, military bounties, or public improvements.