The St. Clair Papers: The Life and Public Services of Arthur St. Clair, Soldier of the Revolutionary War; President of the Continental Congress; and Governor of the North-western Territory; with His Correspondence and Other Papers, Volume 2 |
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... party of twenty men , furnished with fifteen days ' provisions , on the 31st March last , to dispossess sundry persons , who had presumed to settle on the lands of the United States on the western side of the Ohio River . The inclosed ...
... party of twenty men , furnished with fifteen days ' provisions , on the 31st March last , to dispossess sundry persons , who had presumed to settle on the lands of the United States on the western side of the Ohio River . The inclosed ...
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... party of armed men , but upon showing his authority there was no further offensive demonstration ; and that at Mercer's Town he had learned that Charles Norris and John Carpenter had been elected justices of the peace and had acted as ...
... party of armed men , but upon showing his authority there was no further offensive demonstration ; and that at Mercer's Town he had learned that Charles Norris and John Carpenter had been elected justices of the peace and had acted as ...
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... party has been detached , who drove them off as far as seventy miles from this post . The number lower down the river is immense , and , unless Congress enters into immediate measures , it will be im- possible to prevent the lands being ...
... party has been detached , who drove them off as far as seventy miles from this post . The number lower down the river is immense , and , unless Congress enters into immediate measures , it will be im- possible to prevent the lands being ...
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... party of these Indians were formerly massacred ; but as they are too late in the season for planting , their design ... parties to the treaty at Fort McIntosh , to the Americans , escaped on hearing of hostile movements . The highest ...
... party of these Indians were formerly massacred ; but as they are too late in the season for planting , their design ... parties to the treaty at Fort McIntosh , to the Americans , escaped on hearing of hostile movements . The highest ...
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... party who murdered Captain Sherer and three others at Tuscarawas a few weeks ago . This information was confirmed to me by three Frenchmen besides Rollins . When I was at the Shawanee town where Elliot resides , I found that he had ...
... party who murdered Captain Sherer and three others at Tuscarawas a few weeks ago . This information was confirmed to me by three Frenchmen besides Rollins . When I was at the Shawanee town where Elliot resides , I found that he had ...
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Page 613 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 379 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Page 612 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property, rights, and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by 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.
Page 613 - Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 613 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 609 - 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...
Page 611 - ... and return their names to Congress, one of whom, Congress shall appoint and commission for the residue of the term; and every five years, four months at least before the expiration of the time of service of the members of council, the said house shall nominate ten persons, qualified as aforesaid, and return their names to...
Page 610 - Previous to the organization of the General Assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...
Page 609 - ... in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be (being of full age) and attested by three witnesses; and real estates may be conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed and delivered by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts...
Page 611 - The representatives, thus elected, shall serve for the term of two years ; and in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term.