Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to introduce and vote for a bill to repeal an Act entitled ' an Act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service of their masters... Congressional Serial Set - Page 291867Full view - About this book
| Michigan - 1853 - 282 pages
...accordance with the sentiment and views of a majority of the people of the State of Michigan; therefore, Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to vote for the passage of the same. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the... | |
| Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 pages
...new State ought to be admitted into the Union, whose Constitution shall tolerate domestic slavery. " Resolved, That our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their utmost efforts to give effect to the foregoing resolves." And the governor was directed to send the... | |
| 1854 - 656 pages
...printed. STATE OF MAINE. Retoltx in favor of the abolition of spirit rations in the United States navy. Resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to use all reasonable efforts to effect the passage of an act of Congress abolishing the spirit rations now... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1854 - 780 pages
...of this state to be explored, and surveyed, and monuments erected', according to the treaty of 1783. "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to endeavour to .obtain a speedy adjustment of the controversy." , As a preparatory step towards forcing... | |
| Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1855 - 780 pages
...its repeal, directly or indirectly, shall ever receive our vote for any office in the people's gift. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their influence by voice and vote, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and the slave trade between... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1856 - 688 pages
...a seat in the House of Representatives, as the duly elected delegate from the territory of Kensas. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed,...and our Representatives requested, to use their best endeavors for the immediate passage of an act of Congress admitting Kansas into the Union as a State,... | |
| Vermont. General Assembly. Senate - 1856 - 62 pages
...elected and qualified, has disregarded and violated its duties and obligations under the Constitution. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to continue to do all in their power to cause Congress to perform the full measure of its duty, in securing... | |
| California - 1857 - 450 pages
...either money or lands, or both, to construct a Railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use all constitutional means to procure the passage of a law embracing the objects contained in the above... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly. Senate - 1857 - 654 pages
...insist that Congress shall exert all constitutional power to preserve our National Territory Free. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to exert thoir influence and vote for tho admission of Kansas into the Union as a Free State, and to oppose... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 830 pages
...the revolutionary army who should serve to the end of the war, or until the time of their reduction ; Resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to advocate and vote for any bill now before Congress, or which may hereafter be introduced, providing... | |
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