Rhode Island Repudiation: Or, The History of the Revolutionary Debt of Rhode IslandSayles, Miller & Simons, printers, 1855 - 217 pages |
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act of June Act passed Acts of Assembly acts of consolidation aforesaid amount annum Anthony Appendix appointed appropriations Articles of Confederation Asher Robbins balance certificates bills of credit Burrill certificates issued charges Charles Lippitt citizens claims committee Congress consolidated creditors dollars duty Ephraim Hart facts favor four per cent Funded Stock given Governor held hereby holders honorable House indebtedness individual Jabez Bowen January session John Brown Francis June session justice justly due legislation Legislature ment oath obligations October session opinion ordered origin paid paper bills paper money party payable petition petitioners political portion Potter present principal Providence Journal purchase received redeemed Registered State Debt Repudiation resolution Rhode Island securities Senate settlement silver six per cent South Kingstown specie value statements subsequent thereof Thomas Whipple tion Treasurer Tristam Burges United Updike's validity vote Whipple whole Wilkins Updike William Sprague
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Page 67 - Every subject of the commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay; conformably to the laws.
Page 151 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 147 - The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 8 - All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed and debts contracted by, or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the united states, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the united states, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said united states, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 160 - April, passed an ordinance to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under such Constitution.
Page 27 - Plantations,' be, and the same is hereby repealed. " And be it further enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, That...
Page 147 - Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment...
Page 36 - February, 1793, authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual States...
Page 27 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses...
Page 196 - Congress, that all the troops serving in the continental army shall be placed on an equal footing ; provided that no person shall have any benefit of this resolution, except such as were engaged during the war, or for three years, and are now in service, or shall hereafter engage during the war, for three years, and are now in service, or shall hereafter engage during the war.