Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism
The ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE and the SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY, INTERIOR, WAR, NAVY, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and POSTMASTER-GENERAL. GENTLEMEN: The painful intelligence received yesterday enforces upon me the sad duty of announcing to the Executive Departments the death of the Se...
Millard Fillmore General JOS. G. TOTTEN. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 13th instant and to say that I shall be pleased if you will cause the necessary surveys, projects, and estimates for determining the best means of affording the cities of Washington and Georgetown...
Millard Fillmore SIR:* The tolling bells announce the death of the Hon. Henry Clay. Though this event has been long anticipated, yet the painful bereavement could never be fully realized. I am sure all hearts are too sad at this moment to attend to business, and I therefore respectfully suggest t...
Millard Fillmore The SECRETARY OF WAR. MY DEAR SIR: I have just issued an authority to Hugh Maxwell, collector at New York, under the eighth section of the act of April 20, 1818, to arrest any unlawful expedition that may be attempted to be fitted out within his district, and I have given him pow...
Millard Fillmore War Department, Washington, December 20th, 1851. Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith, for your consideration, the draught of an order modifying and reducing the reservation at Port Point and Point Jose, San Francisco Harbor, California, prepared in conformity with the recomm...
Millard Fillmore Chief Clerk. General Land Office, June 24th, 1851. Sir: I have to inform you that the President of the United States exempts and reserves from sale for public purposes, the following tracts or parcels of land, in the State of California: In the Bay of San Francisco, Cala.: 1st. F...
Millard Fillmore In consequence of the death of the President of the United States, I direct that the several Executive Departments be closed until after the funeral of the illustrious deceased, and that they, as well as the Executive Mansion, be placed in mourning, and that the several officers ...
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