Internal Revenue Act on Auction Duties and Pervasive Tariffs
The act sets new duties on auction sales and adds fifty percent to postage rates for United States revenue. It extends penalties and describes collector duties, license provisions, and bond requirements for auctioneers. The measure aims to fund government operations and debt service during the ongoing conflict with Britain, with enforcement provisions across licenses and merchandize sales.
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Treasury
United States
Congress
Great Britain
Library of Thomas Jefferson Purchase Authorization
A congressional act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay twenty three thousand nine hundred fifty dollars to the Library Committee of Congress or their order using Treasury notes as authorized by law. The measure cites acknowledgment of the library purchase by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
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Thomas Jefferson
United States
Senate
House of Representiatives
United States America
Congress
Secretary of the
Treasury
Bey
Jini Library Committee
Madison approves joint resolution in early Congress
Fragmentary text records James Madison approving a joint resolution in the early U S Congress with references to Speaker of the House pro tempore of the Senate and a January date in 1815. The readable parts confirm approval by James Madison.
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Langdon Cheves
House of Revesentatives
John Gaillard
Senate
James Madison
Act for Relief of Willan Robertson and Others
A historical act directs the settlement and payment of claims by William Robertson William White Samuel Masely ward Giddens John Brown Moses Gordony and others for property damages caused by troop detachments under war department orders. The act provides payment to claimants or their legal agents from treasury funds once settled and determined, with approval by the president of the Senate and the Speaker of the House.
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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
Parisian political shifts and Napoleonic repercussions abroad
The Leyden Journal reports July 26 letters and August developments in French politics. Fouche and Talleyrand maneuver to unite royalists and rebels, with Warde shifts in war command, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian concerns, and Vendee fears. A note from Talleyrand to allied powers warns of evolving strategy and potential asylum considerations.
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Boston
Amsterdam
Rogers
Leyden
Paris
Boston Daily Advertiser
C. Leyden
Talleyrand
Vauban
Frante
Bonaparte
Ney
Regisurt de
Vienna
Police
Louis 46Th
Count Jaucourt
Fouche
Champ de Mai
Gouvion St. Cyr
Duke of
Feltre
Mainigier
Frimont
Burgundy
Loire
Prince of
France
Vendee
Spain
Horatio Arrives From Nantes with Paris News
The Horatio Bailey sailed from Nantes August 28 and reached New York after two days. Reports say France was quiet with the army disbanded and no foreign troops near Nantes. U.S. cotton prices improved with Orleans at 240 frs and Georgia Upland at 190.
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New Yorks
Horatio
Mercantile Advertiser
Paris Moniteur
Napoleons Reported Captured and Sent Home
A Prussian misser captured five thousand Napoleons at Waterloo and sent them to his family via the Tutendant General and Councillor of State Ribbentrop. A Landwehr soldier also secured five hundred Napoleons in the event.
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Waterloo
Ribbentrop
Landwehr
Letter from France Describes Evading War Across Europe
Norfolk correspondent relays Aug 9 1315 note from his uncle in Lafleiche near Nantz. The writer condemns European powers fighting a war on France over a single cause and laments the scourge of a frightful conflict on their unhappy country.
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Norfolk
France
Lafleiche
Nantz
Europe
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