The Public Domain: Its History, with Statistics ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 544 strani |
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... Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all need- ful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States . " This clause relates to property and not to persons or communities . Mr ...
... Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all need- ful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States . " This clause relates to property and not to persons or communities . Mr ...
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... congress was called in 1774 , and delegates went to the Continental Congress . Upon the abandonment of the colony by the royal governor in 1775 the provincial congress assumed control and government . On March 26 , 1776 , the ...
... congress was called in 1774 , and delegates went to the Continental Congress . Upon the abandonment of the colony by the royal governor in 1775 the provincial congress assumed control and government . On March 26 , 1776 , the ...
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... congress of delegates . A congress of governors and commissioners of colonies was held at Albany , N. Y. , in 1722 , and a congress of colonial commissioners from New Hampshire , Massa- chusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ...
... congress of delegates . A congress of governors and commissioners of colonies was held at Albany , N. Y. , in 1722 , and a congress of colonial commissioners from New Hampshire , Massa- chusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ...
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... Congress of delegates from thirteen colonies assembled in Philadelphia , according to recommendations of the first , and among the things done by the delegates was to give their reasons for an appeal to arms and to vote to raise twenty ...
... Congress of delegates from thirteen colonies assembled in Philadelphia , according to recommendations of the first , and among the things done by the delegates was to give their reasons for an appeal to arms and to vote to raise twenty ...
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... Congress , which took it into consideration on the 21st of February , 1787 . THE CONSTITUTION . A committee , Mr. Dane , chairman , reported to Congress upon the Annapolis report and memorial , and recommended the calling of a ...
... Congress , which took it into consideration on the 21st of February , 1787 . THE CONSTITUTION . A committee , Mr. Dane , chairman , reported to Congress upon the Annapolis report and memorial , and recommended the calling of a ...
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Stran 60 - May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Stran 438 - New States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State; be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission, under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
Stran 72 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Stran 338 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Stran 60 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Stran 157 - Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Stran 124 - That Congress doth consent that the territory, properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the " State of Texas," with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union.
Stran 371 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated and private rights annulled.
Stran 160 - Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree...
Stran 358 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.