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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars in the District of Colum- bia,” has received my attentive consideration, and I now... ...culation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks... ...r authorized or unauthorized. If this view be correct, the currency of the District, should this act become a law, will certainly and greatly deterior... ... Governor of New Jersey. A. G . Curtin, Governor of Pennsyl- vania. A. W . Bradford, Governor of Maryland. F . H. Pierpoint, Governor of Virginia. Aus... ...62, entitled “An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes,” it is made the... ... further enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia from any other State shall be delivered up or in any w...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...y, A. LINCOLN. 11 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TO GOVERNOR BRADFORD. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 2, 1863. His EXCELLENCY ... ...RD. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 2, 1863. His EXCELLENCY A. W. BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland. SIR:—Y ours of the 31st ult. was received ... ...evolent institutions established or patron- ized by the Government in this District to your generous and fostering care. The attention of Congress dur... ...E HOFFMAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 15, 1863. HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN, U. S. District Judge, San Francisco, Cal.: The oath in the proclamation of Decemb... ...law only obliges us to keep accounts with States, or at most Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and tow... ...forth, placed under blockade; and whereas, the port of Brownsville, in the district of Brazos Santiago, in the State of Texas, has since been blockade... ...summer, I understood him to complain that the enrolments in several of the districts of that State had been neither accurately nor honestly made; and ...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...the utmost the payment of a small redemption. A horse, perhaps, in certain districts, or a bicycle, or any such mechanical conveyance personally used,... ...shall admire its ingenious adaptation to the need 72 A Modern Utopia of a district that is buried half the year in snow, the hard bed below, curved a... ...is done as unwilling charity by administrators who are often, in the rural districts at least, competing for low-priced labour, and who regard want of... ...ee- dom, unless he can produce money. But suppose a man without money in a district where em- ployment is not to be found for him; suppose the amount ... ... found for him; suppose the amount of employment to have diminished in the district with such suddenness as to have stranded him there. Or suppose he ... ...arth; and the subtle folding of the woollen materials witness that Utopian Bradford is no whit behind her earthly sister. White is ex- traordinarily f...

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The Hollytree Three Branches

By: Charles Dickens

...epresenting in a central compartment of oval form the portrait of Jonathan Bradford, and in four corner compartments four incidents of the tragedy wit... ...ance of reality or possibility. So to the close little Inns of the Malaria districts, with their pale attendants, and their peculiar smell of never le...

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Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White

By: Rudyard Kipling

...Learoyd—back again in the smoky, stone-ribbed North, amid the clang of the Bradford looms; Mulvaney—grizzled, tender, and very wise Ulysses, swelter- ... ...he country side, ‘cared for none of these things.’ He had been long in the district, and the Buria Kol loved him and brought him offer- ings of speare... ...so the Buria Kol turned out and hammered HIM rather savagely. I was in the district, and he sent a runner to me with a note saying: “Persecuted for th... ... or rever- ence, with a longing for absolute power which his undesir- able district gratified. ‘No one wants my post,’ he used to say grimly, ‘and my ... ...s of Howli. Now there was an assistant commissioner—a Stunt Sahib, in that district, called Yunkum Sahib. Aha! He was hard- hard even as is the Sahib ... ... his protection. Many eyes had Yunkum Sahib, and moved quickly through his district. Men called him The Tiger of Gokral-Seetarun, because he would arr...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...ble? If that was where romance and passion ended, it was better to take to district visiting or algebra! All night she lay awake and wondered: “What w... ...state—so afraid her son’ll lose Mrs. Pond! When I think that Gisele is old Bradford Wagstaff’s grand-daughter, I’m thankful he’s safe in Mount Auburn!...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...e was a story they liked to tell of a man who had done well for himself at Bradford, and had five shops of his own, and had come back after fifteen ye... ...EGINNING of the last week in August Philip entered upon his duties in the ‘district.’ They were arduous, for he had to attend on an aver- age three co... ...stuteness. They bore the curate with contemptuous indiffer - ence, but the district visitor excited their bitter hatred. She came in and opened your w... ...ior obstetric clerk—had to be sent for; he was a quali- fied man, and the ‘district’ was in his charge. Philip scribbled a note, and giving it to the ...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...sible to level up the minimum standard of all tenements in towns and urban districts at any rate to the possession of a properly equipped bathroom for... ...of building regulation might be contrived for use in different localities. Districts could be classed in grades determined by the position of each dis... ...nic con- ditions about them. It would also tend to force population out of districts intrinsically unhealthy into districts intrinsi- cally healthy. T... ...ealthy into districts intrinsi- cally healthy. The statistics of low-grade districts could be examined to discover the distinctive diseases which dete... ...nducements to attract the high birth-rates towards excep- tionally healthy districts could be contrived by a differential rating of sound families wit... ...in access to the fire-grates. “E. R. C. BRADFORD, “The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. ...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...“I know they are in the county history. They were collected by Sir Francis Bradford, from whom the place was bought, and he was a great connoisseur.” ... ...was wanting. The great house had never been thoroughly furnished since the Bradfords had sold it, and it was, besides, in manifest need of repair. Dam... ... an hotel. Mr. Ogilvie, after several years of good service as curate at a district Church at a fashionable south coast watering place, sometimes know... ...; and Anglicanism shared his distaste, in spite of the fascinations of the district Church. He was languid and inert, partly from being confined to th... ...owers, wherewith to gladden Mrs. Lucas’s eyes, and those of Mother Carey’s district. They prepared their surprises too. Several hopelessly dingy panel...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...in a whisper; wow wow wow wow—wo—wo—w—w. Even in a retired and uninhabited district like this, it was a sufficiency of sound for the ear of night, and... ...msford, when the present city, whose bells we heard, was its obscure north district only , and the giant weaver was not yet fairly born. So old are we... ...wn out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking their sod, and so have set the sand to blowing, till it... ...arber, the river rose twenty one feet above the common high water mark, at Bradford in the year 1818. Before the Lowell and Nashua railroad was built,...

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