Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian Canals, and the Problem of Expansion ... with Chapters on the Policy of American Expansion, Volume 1Dominion Company, 1899 - 681 páginas |
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Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian ..., Volume 1 Murat Halstead Visualização integral - 1899 |
Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian ..., Volume 1 Murat Halstead Visualização integral - 1899 |
Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian ..., Volume 1 Murat Halstead Visualização integral - 1899 |
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Página 222 - Congress, all the military, civil, and judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion.
Página 258 - Each stockholder of a corporation, or joint-stock association, shall be individually and personally liable for such proportion of all its debts and liabilities contracted or incurred, during the time he was a stockholder, as the amount of stock or shares owned by him bears to the whole of the subscribed capital stock, or shares of the corporation or association.
Página 163 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.
Página 223 - The municipal legislation of the Hawaiian Islands, not enacted for the fulfillment of the treaties so extinguished, and not inconsistent with this joint resolution nor contrary to the Constitution of the United States nor to any existing treaty of the United States, shall remain in force until the Congress of the United States shall otherwise determine.
Página 235 - That the laws of Hawaii not inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of the United States or the provisions of this Act shall continue in force, subject to repeal or amendment by the legislature of Hawaii or the Congress of the United States.
Página 76 - There is no running water in the town. The entire population depends upon rain water, caught upon the flat roofs of the buildings and conducted to the cistern, which occupies the greater part of the inner courtyard that is an essential part of Spanish houses the world over, but that here, on account of the crowded conditions, is very small. There is no sewerage, except for surface water and sinks, while vaults are in every house and occupy whatever remaining space there may be in the patios not taken...
Página 44 - This enterprise is so important that I desire to go with this army corps, or to immediately organize another and go with it to join this and capture position No. 2.
Página 76 - It is now (1896) estimated at 30,000. Onehalf of the population consists of negroes and mixed races. There is but little manufacturing, and it is of small Importance. The Standard Oil Company has a small refinery across the bay, in which crude petroleum, brought from the United States, is refined. Matches are made, some brooms, a little soap, and a cheap class of trunk.
Página 196 - Habana $15.50 when its price in the United States was $6.50 per barrel. In the densely populated portions of the city the houses generally have no back yard, properly so called, but a flagged court, or narrow vacant space into which sleeping rooms open at the side, and in close proximity with these, at the rear of this contracted court, are located the kitchen, the privy, and often a stall for animals.
Página 295 - I had nowhere, in the course of my voyages, seen so numerous a body of people assembled at one place. For besides those who had come off to us in canoes, all the shore of the bay was covered with spectators, and many hundreds were swimming round the ships like shoals of fish.