nem con

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Mr. Gouverneur Morris having so varied his motion by inserting the word "direct," it passed, nem. con., as follows: "provided always that direct taxation ought to be proportioned to representation."

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

That it should be inserted somehow, was decided nem. con. in London.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

"My dear," I said, "you are always proposing things, and then, when they are carried nem. con., you argue against your own proposal."

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 by Various

To the important post of "watch-dog of the Treasury," he was, nem. con., the successor to the lamented Holman.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

Of course everything ought to yield where a lady is concerned, and they all very properly agreed, nem. con., to Mr. B.'s request.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith