 | United States. Continental Congress - 1823 - 696 pages
...westward of the Ohio, and withdrew. Resolved, That it be recommended to the several legislatures of the United States, immediately to pass laws the most...are likely to be derived, if not quickly prevented* The committee of treasury reported, That there should be advanced to John Griffith, for sundry provisions,... | |
 | George Duffield - 1855 - 48 pages
...passed the following resolution : " Resolved, That it be recommended to the several legislatures of the United States, immediately to pass laws the most...immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling, by which the most extensive evils are likely to be derived, if not quickly prevented." This speaks... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1856 - 354 pages
...That of Total Abstinence. 5, The no-liceiue agitation. C, Tho epoch of Prohibitive State-Law. " tual for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice'...by which the most extensive evils are likely" to be derired, if not quickly prevented."* In March 1788, an Act passed the Legislature of the EmpireState,... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1857 - 350 pages
...na-Hcencc agitation. 6, The epoch of Prohibitive mate-Law. MAINS-LAW HISTOBX— FIEST PEBIOD. 241 ' in the United States, immediately to pass Laws the...likely to be derived, 'if not quickly prevented.'* In March, 1788, an Act passed the Legislature of the Empire State, entitled "An Act to lay a duty on... | |
 | George Duffield - 1859 - 356 pages
...unanimously. Maine Law in Old Times. — "Resolved, That it be recommended to the several Legislatures of the United States, immediately to pass laws the most...immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling, by which the most extensive evils are likely to be derived if not quickly prevented."— Jour, of the... | |
 | John McClintock - 1881 - 1138 pages
...recommended to the several legislatures of the United States immediiuely to pass liiwa the mo*t effective for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice...are likely to be derived if not quickly prevented." This, however, seems to have been a war measure rather than an attempt at reform. It makes no mention... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 326 pages
...attracted the notice of the patriots, at one of their first Congresses. On the 27th February, 1774, the following resolution appears to have passed unanimously...B. Franklin, Dr. Benj. Rush, and other signers of 128. What part of the system first attracted the attention of the early the Declaration of independence,... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1809 - 332 pages
...several legislatures in the United States immediately to pass laws the most effectual for putting au immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling...congress. In March, 1788, an act passed the Legislature of the Empire State, entitled " An act to lay a dutj• on strong liquors, and for the better regulation... | |
 | 1919 - 902 pages
...Congress adopted this resolution : Resolved, that it be recommended to the several Legislatures of the United States immediately to pass laws the most...the most extensive evils are likely to be derived. The " several Legislatures " disregarded the recommendation. After over one hundred and forty years... | |
 | 1877 - 1018 pages
...recommended to the several legislatures in the United States immediately to pass laws the most effective for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice...are likely to be derived if not quickly prevented." Compare the men of that first Congress with the men composing the present. We now come to the formation... | |
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Resolved, That it be recommended to the several legislatures of the United States, immediately to pass laws the most effectual for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling grain, by which the most extensive evils are likely to... 
