West American History, Količina 23 ,6. delBancroft Company, 1902 |
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... passed the preceding night under a tree . On the journey he discovered gold in a ravine in the foothills , and also at the place afterward called Mormon Island , while examining the river for a lumber - yard site . Life of Marshall , 84 ...
... passed the preceding night under a tree . On the journey he discovered gold in a ravine in the foothills , and also at the place afterward called Mormon Island , while examining the river for a lumber - yard site . Life of Marshall , 84 ...
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... passed the matter by with a piece of pleasantry . The first small flakes of gold that Captain Folsom examined at San Francisco he pronounced mica ; he did not believe a man who came down some time after with twenty ounces when he ...
... passed the matter by with a piece of pleasantry . The first small flakes of gold that Captain Folsom examined at San Francisco he pronounced mica ; he did not believe a man who came down some time after with twenty ounces when he ...
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... passed trudging along under his load , glad to get his effects carried across the stream by some team , although he himself might have to breast the current swimming , perchance holding to the tail of some horse . There were ferries ...
... passed trudging along under his load , glad to get his effects carried across the stream by some team , although he himself might have to breast the current swimming , perchance holding to the tail of some horse . There were ferries ...
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... passed when at San José the merchant closed his store , or if the stock was perishable left open the doors that people might help themselves , and incontinently set out upon the pilgrimage . So the judge abandoned his bench and the ...
... passed when at San José the merchant closed his store , or if the stock was perishable left open the doors that people might help themselves , and incontinently set out upon the pilgrimage . So the judge abandoned his bench and the ...
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... passed near Cherokee and up on the north fork . In nearly all the places we prospected we found the color . One evening , while camped at White Rocks , Dicky and I in a short time panned out about an ounce of fine gold . The others ...
... passed near Cherokee and up on the north fork . In nearly all the places we prospected we found the color . One evening , while camped at White Rocks , Dicky and I in a short time panned out about an ounce of fine gold . The others ...
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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.