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1st Session 25th Congress accompany bill H. R. act of Congress affidavit aforesaid allowed amount answer appears army Attending Bailey & Delord Batut Blair & Rives Captain cent certificate chancery charge clerk Colonel Committee of Claims Committee on Invalid Committee on Revolutionary contract copy court court of chancery David Beard Department deponent disability discharged dollars duty enlisted entitled executed expenses FEBRUARY 29 following REPORT Fort Erie further GEORGE OGLE Government granted honor House of Representatives Hungerford Invalid Pensions James James Smithson January JOHN FORSYTH July labor land letter MARCH ment Messrs months obedient servant observatory opinion paid papers payment petitioner Plattsburg Prentiss present printers received referred the petition regiment relief report a bill request Revolutionary Pensions RICHARD RUSH river Secretary Smithson soldier solicitors submitted the following testimony thereon tion Treasury troops United Washington William wound
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Page xviii - When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof...
Page 198 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page xviii - A motion to strike out and insert, shall be deemed indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment, nor a motion to strike out and insert.
Page 30 - Agent in six months to be forwarded to the War Department, shall be entitled to a quarter section of Land, to be located under the direction of the President, and with his consent the same may be sold and the proceeds applied to some beneficial purpose for the benefit of said orphans.
Page 198 - Government funds,. or elsewhere, standing in the name of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, or...
Page 198 - Congress may hereafter direct, to the purpose of founding and endowing at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge among Men, to which application of the said moneys and other funds the faith of the United States is hereby pledged.
Page 15 - ... the mere sailing under an enemy's license, without regard to the object of the voyage, or the port of destination, constituted, of itself, an act of illegality which subjected the property to confiscation.
Page 17 - For the purpose of showing the great uniformity which has prevailed, and how ready Congress has always been to respect the motives of individuals charged with violations of the law, the committee submit the annexed schedule of laws passed on this subject. (See Appendix C.) These cases establish the principle that, when it was apparent that a forfeiture had been incurred without " wilful negligence or intention of fraud," it ought to be remitted or refunded.
Page xviii - Any member may call for the division of a question, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct, that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House.
Page 198 - I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obedient servant, RICHARD RUSH.