Checklist of Public Documents Containing Debates and Proceedings of Congress from the First to the Fifty-third Congress: Together with Miscellaneous Lists of Documents, and Historical and Bibliographical Notes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - 222 páginas
 

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Página 159 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all. suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be...
Página 106 - Provided, That, until a contract is made, the debates shall be printed by the congressional printer, under the direction of the joint committee on public printing on the part of the Senate.
Página 166 - England, who gave his entire property to the United States to establish an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Página 11 - The great mass of these documents were to be found only in the archives of the two Houses. No complete set of them existed in any other place. * * * In addition to this, many exist only in the manuscript records of the two Houses.
Página 159 - States ; who shall be sworn or affirmed to the faithful execution of his office, whose duty it shall be, to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when requested "by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matter that may concern their departments.
Página 172 - Academy of Arts and Sciences, has recently returned to the United States, bringing with him a rich contribution to science, in a series of observations amounting to nearly forty thousand, and embracing a most extensive catalogue of stars.
Página 174 - Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore MC Perry.
Página 189 - Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of other Periodical Works in the Library of the Smithsonian Institution, July 1, 1858.
Página 132 - For extending the triangulation of the coast survey so as to form a geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States...
Página 5 - ... executive and other reports may be found." These appendixes and additional lists were compiled by Miss Adelaide R. Hasse. In the preface it is said: "That this work is a complete checklist of public documents is not by any means asserted; but it becomes nearer being so than any preceding publications ; and the collection of material for a new and more complete edition will be at once begun and steadily continued.

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