House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Band 14 |
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American amount Austrian average bales barrels Bavaria bushels cargo casks centner cents per pound centum ad valorem cloth coal colony commenced considerable Consul consular cotton crop December 31 demand description and value district duty employed ended December 31 ended June 30 ended March 31 ended September 30 ended this day exports extent factory favor flax florins foreign France Frankfort Galashiels gallons Hamburg Hawick hundred hundred-weight imports increase iron June 30 jute linen machine machinery manufacture March 31 Messrs miles mills months North German Confederation Piculs port Porto Rico produced Prussian Prussian thalers quantity quarter ended December quarter ended June quarter ended March quarter ended September quintals railway rix-dollars Scotland shipped showing the description silk silver Spanish vessels spinning Statement showing sugar thalers thousand tion tobacco tonnage tons Total for quarter trade tweed United wine wool woolen yarn Zollverein
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Seite 311 - I stood, as it were, transfixed, riveted to the place, struck with amazement and wonder at the sight, and for a few minutes was unable to use the hammer. Thousands of persons might here find ample room to work on this extensive field without interfering with one another.
Seite 172 - Gentlewomen married did wear close upper bodies [boddice?] after the German manner, with large whalebone sleeves, after the French manner, — short cloaks like the Germans, French hoods, and large falling bands about their necks. The unmarried of all sorts did go bareheaded and wear short cloaks, with most close linen sleeves on their arms, like the virgins of Germany. The inferior sort of citizens...
Seite 146 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Seite xxvi - State to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the department.
Seite 154 - A coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of one put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the cannibals adored the divell.
Seite 390 - An act concerning tonnage duties on Spanish vessels;" and from and after the passage of this act no discriminating tonnage duties shall be levied on Spanish vessels coming from foreign countries, except those coming from Cuba or Porto Rico.
Seite 214 - Holland for shirts, but the old ones were satisfied with necks and sleeves of the fine, which were put on loose above the country cloth.
Seite 389 - American vessels at the port in said islands from whence such Spanish vessels shall have last departed ; and likewise such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would have been imposed on the cargoes imported in the same vessels, respectively, if the same had been exported from the port of Havana in American bottoms.
Seite 132 - ... was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction or working, but because the Directors of the Forth and Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks. Yet the man in all Britain who possessed at that time the greatest practical experience of the working of canals (the Duke of Bridgewater), was not deterred by any such apprehension from ordering, in 1802, eight similar vessels from Symington to be used on his canal. 5. The death of the Duke of Bridgewater early in the following year...
Seite 187 - ... ruin by depriving them of employment, and thus make them beggars. Had Mr Lee made a machine that would have made silk stockings, I should, I think, have been somewhat justified in granting him a patent for that monopoly, which would have affected only a small number of my subjects; but to enjoy the exclusive privilege of making stockings for the whole of my subjects is too important to be granted to any individual.