In December of 1913 the Federal Reserve Act authorized the production of Federal Reserve notes. ... The BEP produces the currency notes as ordered by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Responsibility for the replacement of unfit notes rests with the Federal Reserve Banks. ... The Federal Reserve destroys these notes and replaces them with new bills. ... That same year, the Federal Reserve withdrew from circulation and replaced about 7.5 billion notes. ...

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In Sheldon v Ramsay in 1852 an Ontario Court held that the Six Nations Indians had no legal rights to their reserve lands, because the common law could not be "part savage and part civilized." ... At issue were treaty protected hunting rights, on the one hand, and the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a federal statute, on the other. ... They agreed with the decision in the court below which enforced the federal legislation. ... Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice on Indian constitutional issues, was asked what rights he thought were protected by sec...

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Someone said on PBS's Newshour one day later that "traders interpreted the Federal Reserve Chairman's comments to mean that stocks in the U.S. market were overvalued and that, in response, the Federal Reserve might raise U.S. interest rates, thus affecting markets everywhere". ... About three months after that speech, the Federal Reserve raised its intended federal funds rate by 0.25 points and there was no further increase until June 1999. ...

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First, he encouraged a restrictive monetary policy by encouraging the Federal Reserve to keep Federal Interest Rates high. ... Out of these four changes, the Reagan Administration had the easiest time encouraging the Federal Reserve to keep rates high. ...

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He was changing judicial assignments and moving his office, his wife was ill, and he faced a looming deadline for a research paper that would help him win a promotion to colonel in the Air Force Reserve. ... A federal prosecutor says someone left it for him anonymously under his office door in a plain envelope, along with a short note and a photocopy of a second paper on the same subject - the one Holder is alleged to have copied from. ... The fact that someone left the disputed document for the federal prosecutor buttresses their contention that Holder is being framed, his attorneys say. ...

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There were incidents in New York (LaGuardia Airport, and World Trade Center), Georgia (1996 Olympics), Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City Federal Building), and in Alabama (New Women Abortion Clinic). ... The building was evacuated, as were other federal buildings in the Capitol, including the White House. ... Halliday argues that the part pulling us out is increasing government spending, cutting taxes, being less concerned about the budget deficit and having the Fed move more aggressively to stimulate the economy than it probably would have without this attack .The Federal Reserve Board has lately ...

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As a result of both increasing violence and the potential for violence against probation personnel, many local, state, and federal probation agencies throughout ,the nation have introduced or increased safety training for their employees. ... These same officers are prohibited from carrying firearms when reserve peace officers, who according to Colorado Revised Statutes have lesser peace officer status than probation officers, are authorized to carry firearms (C.R.S. 18-1-901[IV5][A] & [B], 1997). ... In 1993 the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association set out to su...

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To assist the president with this duty, the president has the federal bureaucracy. ... In 1965, President Johnson issued an executive order to all federal agencies of the executive branch not to award federal contracts to any company that did not submit an "affirmative action" plan for hiring and promoting qualified minorities. ... Another special power the president has to function as the C E O is his ability to refuse to appear before or to withhold information from Congress and the federal courts. ...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and thro...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generati...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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Louis, the first child of Louis Riel Pere and Julie Lagimodiere, was born October 22, 1844 in St. Boniface. In 1843 after spending his childhood in Quebec where his parents had returned to live and following an attempt at being a seminarian, Louis Riel Pere returned to settle in the West, the count...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ...

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Think back to when sports were just plain fun and you could play all day, and you were good at every game, too. You were 10. It still sounds the same out there on the field.... Hey, batter, batter.... It's still fun, and when it's muddy, it's even more fun. ...

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