The American Annual Register: Or Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The American Annual Register: Or Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796

As newfpapers are poweriul in their operations 011 the public, it may be p'roper here to take notice of fome attempts that were afterwards made for fwelling this fpeech into an alarming magnitude of importance, and for degrading, at the fame time, the dignity of the country. In the Phila delphia Gazette, of the 5th of April, 1796, there appeared two extracts of letters faid to be written from London. The firi't is dated the 15th of January lafl, and conveys a pane gyrick 011 the Prefident, which, to borrow the ilile of(7)

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Excerpt from The American Annual Register: Or Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796

The first session of the fourth Congress of the United States commenced on Monday, the 7th of December, 1795. The House of Representatives consists at present of an hundred and five members; of these, fifty-three as being a majority, form a quorum. In the preceding session, the House were to have met on the 3d of November, 1794, but they could not make a quorum till the 6th; thus three days of that session, and about eight hundred dollars of congressional wages, were cast away. The nation have a right to punctual attendance. By a law part on the 22d of September, 1789, every member of the House of Representatives is entitled, for expences of travelling, to fix dollars for each twenty miles of the distance from his own place of residence to that where Congress meet.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.