 | 660 lehte
...to make its appearance in our land. From a conviction that fucli was therefolution of Miniften, he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the Houfe to the i- fleets of this war in reducing us to the prefent irifi', and to the manner in which... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1803 - 630 lehte
...Townfend, Robert Adair, Efq. Francis Gregor, Efq. L jr.; iv ATS PRITATE PETITIONS. The Speaker faid, he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the Houfc to the cafe of private petitions; as no time was aflually fixed which fhould pofitively be the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 714 lehte
...therefore only be justified by a previous act of aggression; and, except in the instance to which he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the house, it could not be shewn that an order for that purpose had ever been issued under the authority... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1828 - 838 lehte
...matter of the Demerara and Berbice manumission order in council, belaid before this House." And he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the House to those circumstances which induced him to consider such a course as highly expedient. He begged... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 lehte
...April 30, 1816. The Resolution was introduced by the following Speech. MR. WEBSTER said, that he had felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the House once more to the subject of the collection of the revenue, and to present the resolutions which... | |
 | Thomas Falconer, Edward H. Fitzherbert - 1839 - 760 lehte
...the most material parts of which are alluded to in the argument of the case, it was Resolved — That the Committee is unanimously of opinion that the vote...be his duty to call the attention of the Committee to those parts of the evidence which bore on the real question before them. A great deal of the evidence... | |
 | 1854 - 616 lehte
...importance, which would not otherwise belong to allegations of that nature. The President, therefore, felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the Council to the subject at a meeting held on the 3rd of August. The allegations in question being coupled... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 808 lehte
...and undeviating practice, which had given to it the force and obligation of law; and he [Mr. KING] felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the Senate to this most objectionable innovation. Yesterday a bill was reported from the House of Representatives... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 880 lehte
...and undeviating practice, which had giv-en to it the force and obligation of law ; and he [Mr. KING] felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the Senate to this most objectionable innovation. Yesterday a bill was reported from the House of Representatives... | |
 | 1858 - 1110 lehte
...shareholders would be compelled to pay their just quota. On the ground of moral and commercial principle he felt it to be his duty to call the attention of the public and of the Attorney-General to the gross mismanagement and to the transactions that had taken... | |
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... [Mr. KING'S] congressional experience, he did not know of a single instance in which this rule had been departed from, until now. But there has been a departure from this usage, sanctioned by justice and undeviating practice, which had given to it... 
