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. Washington D.C. Business Directory, 10 Footnotes 5 Economics The Washington Navy Yard in 1862, Concurrent Resolutions affect only both the House and Senate and accordingly are not presented to the president for approval later in the House they begin with "H.Con.Res.". Congressional Budget Office Another approach to the question was offered by Quaker and Florida planter Zephaniah Kingsley Jr He advocated and personally practiced deliberate racial mixing through marriage as part of his proposed solution to the slavery issue: racial integration called "amalgamation" at the time in an 1829 Treatise he stated that mixed-race people were healthier and often more beautiful that interracial sex was hygienic and that slavery made it convenient.:190 Because of these views tolerated in Spanish Florida he found it impossible to remain long in Territorial Florida and moved with his slaves and multiple wives to a plantation in Haiti (now in the Dominican Republic) There were many others who less flagrantly practiced interracial common-law marriages with slaves (see Partus sequitur ventrem). All three branches of the U.S federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative) president (executive) and the Supreme Court (judicial) Washington is home to many national monuments and museums primarily situated on or around the National Mall the city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations trade unions non-profits lobbying groups and professional associations including the World Bank Group the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Organization of American States AARP the National Geographic Society the Human Rights Campaign the International Finance Corporation and the American Red Cross, In 2012 Washington's annual murder count had dropped to 88 the lowest total since 1961 the murder rate has since risen from that historic low though it remains close to half the rate of the early 2000s. Washington was once described as the "murder capital" of the United States during the early 1990s the number of murders peaked in 1991 at 479 but the level of violence then began to decline significantly.

. Currency and postage In 1846 after Polk ordered General Taylor's troops into the disputed territory Mexican forces attacked an American Army outpost ("Thornton Affair") in the occupied territory killing 12 U.S soldiers and capturing 52 These same Mexican troops later laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande. Polk cited this attack as an invasion of U.S territory and requested that the Congress declare war.