The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year, Volumen20

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Gray and Bowen, 1848
Vol. 1 has title: The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge ... comprising a calendar for the year; astronomical information; miscellaneous directions, hints, and statistical and other particulars.

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Página 311 - Union, so to alter the provisions of the act of congress, entitled " an act to grant a certain quantity of land to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and to connect the same by a canal in the territory of Wisconsin...
Página 130 - CONGRESS. THE Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble, at least, once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law.
Página 130 - The Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Página 245 - ... major part of them, and the judges of the court of appeals, or the major part of them.
Página 311 - ... the clear proceeds of all property that may accrue to the State by forfeiture or escheat, and all moneys •which may be paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...
Página 331 - Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, 1804.
Página 159 - Under the direction of the War Department. Army proper, Military Academy, ..... Fortifications, and other works of defence, Armories, arsenals, and munitions of war...
Página 281 - No corporate body shall be hereafter created, renewed or extended with banking or discounting privileges, without six months' previous public notice of the intended application for the same in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Página 3 - the 2696th year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been assigned to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th year of the Julian Period...
Página 313 - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The District of Columbia is under the immediate government of Congress. The city of Washington became the seat of the government of the United States in 1800; and it is the residence of the President and the other chief executive officers of the national government.

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