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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
egan the career of navigation and commerce which has specially distinguished the New England States. See navigation acts; naval ships; Great Lakes and the Navy. Ship-building on the Lakes. Henry Sherman Boutell, who has been a member of Congress from Illinois since 1897, contributes the following illuminative discussion of the Rush-Bagot convention in its relation to the subject of the building and maintenance of war-ships on the Great Lakes. Mr. Boutell was born in Boston, Mass., March 4, 1856; graduated at Harvard in 1876; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879; and was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1884. He was elected to Congress in November, 1897, and re-elected in 1898 and 1900. In 1815, at the close of the war between the United States and Great Britain, each country had a considerable naval force on the northern lakes. The reduction of this force was essential to a permanent peace. Nevertheless, in the latter part of the summer of 1815, Mr. John Quincy
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
sident Pierce to Congress, endorses the bogus legislature, and calls the Topeka movement revolutionary......Jan. 24, 1856 Whitfield takes his seat in Congress, and Reeder announces that he will contest it......Feb. 4, 1856 United States forces in Kansas, by order of Secretary of War, are put under requisition of the governor......Feb. 15, 1856 Free-State legislature meets at Topeka; Governor Robinson delivers his message, and A. H. Reeder and J. H. Lane are elected senators......March 4, 1856 Henry Ward Beecher sends twenty-five Bibles and twenty-five Sharp's rifles to a Connecticut party emigrating to Kansas......March 28, 1856 Topeka constitution presented in United States Senate by Lewis Cass, March 24; in the House by Daniel Mace, of Indiana......April 7, 1856 Congressional investigating committee reaches Lawrence......April 18, 1856 Sheriff Jones attempts to arrest S. N. Wood in Lawrence, charged with aiding in the rescue of Branson in November previous, but
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Paul A. Farley, of the county of Lunenburg; House bill refunding to the securities of Wm. H. Blanche, late Sheriff of the county of Mecklenburg, certain damages paid by them; Senate bill for the relief of Daniel S. Dickinson; House bill to amend the charter of the Banks of Scottsville; Senate bill establishing a branch Bank at the town of Jeffersonville, in the county of Tazewell; House bill to incorporate the Capper Springs Company; House bill to amend the 1st section of the act passed March 4, 1856, for marking the boundary line between Fluvanna and Albemarle counties. On motion of Mr. Dickinson, of Prince Edward, the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1861. Speaker Critchfield called the House to order at 11 o'clock. The House were informed by the Clerk of the Senate of the passage by that body of a number of bills; some of which were passed by the House, as follows: Incorporating the Little Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company; for
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], London Stock Exchange. (search)
n the law regulating assemblages of free negroes. Direct Trade.--Mr. Bisbie's resolutions (heretofore offered) for the encouragement of a line of steamers between Havre, in France, and Norfolk, Va., were called up by by the mover, and after explanation and advocacy, were passed without a dissenting voice. Bills Passed.--The following bills were read the requisite number of times and passed: Incorporating the Cappers Springs Company; amending the first section of the act passed March 4th, 1856, for marking the boundary line between Fluvanna and Albemarle counties; incorporating the Western Virginia Insurance Company; amending the second, section of an act, entitled an act incorporating the town of Bethany, passed April 5th, 1853; amending the charter of the town of Christiansburg, and extending its limits; incorporating the Sweet Chalybeate Springs Company, in the county of Alleghany; amending the charter of the town of Frankfort, in the county of Greenbrier; authorizing the t