Tariff Act Adopts Fifty Percent Additions on Auctions and Licenses
A 1814 congressional act outlines a fifty percent increase on auction sale duties and on licenses for wines spirits and foreign merchandise to be collected by the same officers as prior duties. It sets penalties for noncompliance requires quarterly auction reports and extends the existing acts governing duties on licenses to retailers. The measure aims to fund government debt and create a sinking fund during wartime with provisions for future adjustments by law.
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Epoiaestiloes
Dutieh
Senate
United Sales of America
Congress
Staes
United States
Macaer
Shereb
Treasury
Great Britain
Fas
Library of Thomas Jefferson Purchase Authorization Enacted
Senate and House enact authorization for the Treasury Secretary to pay twenty three thousand nine hundred fifty dollars to the Library Committee of Congress or their order. The payment will be in Treasury notes under the law of the fourth year.
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Thomas Jefferson
United States
Senate
House of Representiatives
United States America
Congress
Secretary of the
Treasury
Bey
Jini Library Committee
Fragmentary constitutional note cites Madison approval
Scrambled OCR fragment references the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate and James Madison approving a document dated January 305 1815, indicating a formal constitutional act or proclamation with Madison involved.
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Langdon Cheves
House of Revesentatives
John Gaillard
Senate
James Madison
Relief for War Damages Claims in Early Act
An act proposed in Congress directs proper accounting offices to settle the claims of William Robertson William White Samuel Masely ward Giddens John Brown Moses Gordony and others for damages caused by troop detachments under War Department orders. The act mandates payment of settled amounts to the claimants or their lawful agents from the treasury or other funds, upon proper ascertainment and approval. The document records the Senate and House approval and the President’s signature.
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Willan
Robertson
Senate
House of
United States of América
Congress
William Robertson
William White
Samuel Masely
Ward Giddens
John Brown
Moses
United States
War Department
European intrigue and Napoleonic fallout reach Boston papers
A translated Leyden journal and Philadelphia note reveal ministerial reshuffles in Paris guided by Talleyrand and Fouche, the royalist alliance strategy, and Allied army movements near the Loire. Reports mention Bonaparte’s position, Napoleon’s envoy notes, and the Waterloo subscription appeals in England.
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Boston
Amsterdam
Rogers
Leyden Political Journal
Paris
Boston Daily Advertiser
C. Leyden
Talleyrand
Vauban
Frante
Bonaparte
Ney
Reginsurt de St. Jean d’Angely
Fouche
Prince Talleyrand
Count de Blaeas
Pasquier
Montesquieu
Duke of
Feltre
Gouvion St. Cyr
France Quiet and Army Disbanded Says Paris Moniteur
The Horatio Bailey arrived from Nantes after a 42 day passage. Reports say France was quiet with the army disbanded and no foreign troops near Nantes. Cotton prices in New Orleans at 240 frs and Georgia upland at 190 frs. Mercantile Advertiser editors received Paris Moniteur up to August 2.
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New Yorks
Horatio
Mercantile Advertiser
Paris Moniteur
Napoleon Treasure Found in War Loot Report
A Prussian vassar captured five thousand Napoleons at Waterloo and sent them home via Tutendant General Ribbentrop. A Landwehr soldier also took possession of five hundred Napoleons. General Kosciusko is said to reside pre Sent in Switzerland.
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Waterloo
Ribbentrop
Landwehr
Letter from Norfolk gentleman on French invasion in 1315
Extract of a letter from a Norfolk man to his uncle in France dated Lafleiche near Nantes August 9 1315. He condemns European powers for invading beautiful France under a preposterous pretext and describes the horrors of a frightful war.
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Philadelphia
Prince Talleyrand
Rochelle
Sehr
Selby
Nantz
Roshelle
France
Prince Talley
Rand
Spain
London Courier
London
Paris
Bos. Pal
Norfolk
Lafleiche
Europe
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Balmouth
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Great Batat
Ty Abassador
United States of America
N. Yorke
Keming
Gt. Heb
George Cockburn
la Bedayere
Council of Revision
Foreign Articl
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England
Cantrbury
Empire
Brussels
Buonaparte
Phil Howitzer
Strawsburg
Napoleon
Buongparte
Elbert
Louis
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