West American History, Količina 23 ,6. delBancroft Company, 1902 |
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... Committees of Vigilance - The Jenkins Affair - Villanous Law Courts -James Stuart - Political and Judicial Corruption ... Committee under Trying Circumstances - Disbandment ..... CHAPTER XXVI . ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO . 1851-1856 . A ...
... Committees of Vigilance - The Jenkins Affair - Villanous Law Courts -James Stuart - Political and Judicial Corruption ... Committee under Trying Circumstances - Disbandment ..... CHAPTER XXVI . ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO . 1851-1856 . A ...
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... committee , and each man was registered on his arrival , and each took his turn in crossing . The boat ran night and day , carrying each time two wagons and horses and the people connected with the 1. Some of them had to camp there ...
... committee , and each man was registered on his arrival , and each took his turn in crossing . The boat ran night and day , carrying each time two wagons and horses and the people connected with the 1. Some of them had to camp there ...
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... committee of the Cal . const . convention , in statement of March 1850 , assumed a population of 26,000 , whereof 8,000 Americans , 5,000 foreigners , and 13,000 Californians , but the last two estimates are excessive . See also ...
... committee of the Cal . const . convention , in statement of March 1850 , assumed a population of 26,000 , whereof 8,000 Americans , 5,000 foreigners , and 13,000 Californians , but the last two estimates are excessive . See also ...
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... Committee of the Association , is the title of a quarto of 393 pages , printed in San Francisco for the 25th anni- versary of the association in 1874. From the profuse puffery with which the volume opens , the reader is led to suspect ...
... Committee of the Association , is the title of a quarto of 393 pages , printed in San Francisco for the 25th anni- versary of the association in 1874. From the profuse puffery with which the volume opens , the reader is led to suspect ...
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... committee of the California constitutional convention , places the population at the close of 1849 at 106,000 , which , as compared with the census figure , six months later , of about 112,000 , exclusive of Indians , appears excessive ...
... committee of the California constitutional convention , places the population at the close of 1849 at 106,000 , which , as compared with the census figure , six months later , of about 112,000 , exclusive of Indians , appears excessive ...
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Stran 257 - District I" comprises the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the District of Columbia; (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within District I and District V; (d) "Districts I-IV...
Stran 343 - Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to the South, in substance, the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections was destroyed by the action of this Government.
Stran 341 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Stran 301 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Stran 130 - from New York to New Orleans twice a month and back, touching at Charleston, if practicable, Savannah, and Habana; and from Habana to Chagres and back twice a month.
Stran 543 - That the commissioners herein provided for, and the District and Supreme Courts, in deciding on the validity of any claim brought before them under the provisions of this act, shall be governed by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the law of nations, the laws, usages, and customs of the government from which the claim is derived, the principles of equity, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, so far as they are applicable.
Stran 91 - The entire gold district, with very few exceptions of grants made some years ago by the Mexican authorities, is on land belonging to the United States. It was a matter of serious reflection with me, how I could secure to the government certain rents or fees for the privilege of procuring this gold ; but upon considering the large extent of country, the character of the people engaged, and the small scattered force at my command, I resolved not to interfere, but to permit all to work freely, unless...
Stran 62 - The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles," exclaimed the former, " and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! GOLD! ! GOLD! ! ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes, and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained...
Stran 277 - The undersigned, in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of War, has assumed the administration of civil affairs in California, not as a military Governor, but as the executive of the existing civil government.
Stran 575 - The archives thus collected," he wrote, furnished irresistible proof that there had been an organized system of fabricating land titles carried on for a long time in California by Mexican officials ; that forgery and perjury had been reduced to a regular occupation; that the making of false grants, with the subornation of false witnesses to prove them, had become a trade and a business.