House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 12

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Page 30 - Lord should not take when he please, and pay as see.meth him good: wherefore, as ye are agents, and ye are on the Lord's errand; and whatever ye do according to the will of the Lord, is the Lord's business, and he hath set you to provide for his saints in these last days, that they may obtain an inheritance in the land of Zion...
Page 1 - That the said party of the first part has hereby let and rented to the party of the second part, and the party of the second part has hereby hired and taken from the party of the first part...
Page 14 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved February 28, 1919, and all other Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
Page 7 - Majesty King Charles the Second, by his Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of England, bearing date the...
Page 30 - Behold, it is said in my laws, or forbidden, to get in debt to thine enemies; but behold, it is not said at any time, that the Lord should not take when he please, and pay as seemeth him good : wherefore, as ye are agents, and ye are on the Lord's errand; and whatever ye do according to the will of the Lord, is the Lord's business, and he hath set you to provide for his saints...
Page 30 - All of which is respectfully submitted. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, AH BOWMAN, Engineer in charge, Treasury Department.
Page 1 - ... thereupon. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement is made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company, as provided In section 116 of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat.
Page 10 - Territory were the chief inducements that caused the Mormons to abandon the idea of resisting the authority of the United States. A less decisive policy would probably have resulted in a long, bloody, and expensive war.
Page 25 - ... business. Desolate islands, barren rocks, and projecting promontories, useless to individuals, but of priceless value to the government, had been seized upon under these spurious titles, with a view of extorting millions from the United States for sites necessary to defend the national possessions on the Pacific, and to light and guard the commerce of the coast. The richest part of San Francisco was found to be covered by no less than five different grants, every one of them forged after the...
Page 30 - Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind ; and the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land of Zion in these last days; and the rebellious shall be cut off out of the land of Zion, and shall be sent away, and shall not inherit the land ; for, verily, I say that the rebellious are not of the blood of Ephraim, wherefore they shall be plucked out.

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