An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the Year ..., Volume 2American News Company, 1879 - Almanacs |
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Page 408 - New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Total 732 686 i.
Page 176 - Entered according to act of Congress, in the year , by , in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington...
Page 40 - ... at the sums which a majority of the assessors have decided to be the full and true value thereof, and at which they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor...
Page 144 - That it is necessary to maintain in the world the monetary functions of silver, as well as those of gold...
Page 35 - ... a system of internal and direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in anything which has heretofore been recorded in civil history, or is likely to be experienced hereafter. The one necessity of the situation was revenue, and to obtain it speedily and in large amounts through taxation the only principle recognized—if it Can be called a principle—was akin to that recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair, ' Wherever...
Page 198 - SEC. 19. —That every person, firm, association, other than national bank associations, and every corporation, state bank, or state banking association shall pay a tax of ten per centum on the amount of their own notes used for circulation and paid out by them.
Page 149 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, cast 3,982,011 votes now, against 3,870,222 cast then, showing an aggregate now of 3,982,011.
Page 199 - ... and sold or removed for consumption and sale in the United States, where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure, with its contents, shall not exceed, at the retail price or value, the sum of twenty-five cents, one cent.
Page 145 - That the differences of opinion which have appeared, and the fact that even some of the states, which have the double standard find it impossible to enter into a mutual engagement with regard to the free coinage of silver, exclude the discussion of the adoption of a common ratio between the two metals.
Page 123 - ... change. He was ready to avow, without shame or remorse, that he went into the committee with a very different opinion from that which he at present entertained ; for his views of the subject were most materially different when he voted against the resolutions brought forward in 1811 by Mr. Horner, as the chairman of the bullion committee.