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Library of Congress1857

Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instants, correspondence between the executive department and the present Governor of Kansas, and between the executive and any governor or other officer of the government in Kansas, with any orders or instructions which may have been issued, together with other information relative to affairs in that territory. December 23, 1857. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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Library of Congress1858

In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the message of the President, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a state, adopted by the convention which met at Lecompton, on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857, having had the same under consideration, instruct me to report

Appendix, p. 20. Minority report follows p. 51. Minority report follows p. 76. Title from opening lines of text.

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Library of Congress1861

Ordinance of Secession, 1861.

This document is a one-page handwritten copy of the Ordinance of Secession passed on January 10, 1861, by the members of the Florida Convention of the People (commonly referred to as the Secession Convention). Pursuant to an act of the Florida legislature approved on November 30, 1860, Governor Madison S. Perry issued a proclamation calling an election on Saturday, December 22, 1860, for delegates to a convention to address the issue of whether Florida had a right to withdraw from the Union. The Secession Convention met in Tallahassee on January 3, 1861, and passed, on January 10, the Ordinance of Secession. The ordinance declared Florida to be "a sovereign and independent nation." On April 13, the convention ratified the constitution adopted by the Confederate States of America. The convention adjourned on April 27, 1861.

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Library of Congress1858

In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the message of the President, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a state, adopted by the convention which met at Lecompton, on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857, having had the same under consideration, instruct me to report

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Library of Congress1865

The state of South Carolina : At a convention of the people ... an ordinance to dissolve the union between the state of South Carolina and other states united with her under the compact entitled, "The Constitution of the United States of America."

Facsimile lithograph of original 1860 ms. document with caption insert: "This scroll of 'treason' was found in the house of Dr. Lamb, Secretary of State." LC copy has ink annotation: Presented by W. D. Babbett, Chicago. LAC nsk 2021-08-04 create (1 card)

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Library of Congress1856

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress. December 2, 1856. -- Read. December 11, 1856. -- Ordered, that the message and accompanying documents be printed, and that 15,000 additional copies thereof be printed for the use of the Senate

Accompanying documents follow p. 27. Annual reports of the Surveyors General, p. 238. Report of Coast Survey Office relative to progress of survey of keys and islands on the coast of Florida, p. 549. Report of Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, p. 880. Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, p. 554. Report of the Commissioner of Pensions, p. 833. Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, p. 849. Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, p. 189. Report of the Secretary of the Interior, p. 174. Report of the Warden of the Penitentiary, p. 865. SERIALSETDELIVERY1

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