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... United States and Great Britain and their citizens . In 1824 the United States opened negotiations with the Emperor of all the Russias for a treaty to define the boundaries of the respective 6 BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL DOMAIN .
... United States and Great Britain and their citizens . In 1824 the United States opened negotiations with the Emperor of all the Russias for a treaty to define the boundaries of the respective 6 BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL DOMAIN .
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... citizens of United States due from France paid by United States , $ 3,738,268.93 ; a total of $ 27,257,621.98 , and added to the public domain 1,182,752 square miles or 756,961,280 acres . 2. From Spain . From Spain , by treaty February ...
... citizens of United States due from France paid by United States , $ 3,738,268.93 ; a total of $ 27,257,621.98 , and added to the public domain 1,182,752 square miles or 756,961,280 acres . 2. From Spain . From Spain , by treaty February ...
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... citizens , can get 160 acres of land for themselves under the homestead act , another 160 acres under the timber- culture act , probably adjoining , and every other member of their families above the age of twenty - one years can have ...
... citizens , can get 160 acres of land for themselves under the homestead act , another 160 acres under the timber- culture act , probably adjoining , and every other member of their families above the age of twenty - one years can have ...
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... citizens of London , and is often historically referred to as the " London Company , " with headquarters at London , England . The territorial grant of the first colony covered a strip of sea - coast fifty miles broad , extending from ...
... citizens of London , and is often historically referred to as the " London Company , " with headquarters at London , England . The territorial grant of the first colony covered a strip of sea - coast fifty miles broad , extending from ...
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... citizens of Virginia , shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them , and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties . That a quantity not exceeding one hundred and fifty thou- sand acres of land , promised ...
... citizens of Virginia , shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them , and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties . That a quantity not exceeding one hundred and fifty thou- sand acres of land , promised ...
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Page 155 - 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 58 - That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in 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...
Page 96 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States...
Page 154 - The general assembly or legislature shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years unless sooner removed by Congress; any three of whom to be a quorum: and the members...
Page 96 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 151 - 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 131 - If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the governments of the two republics, whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning the political or commercial relations of the two nations, the said governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will...
Page 70 - 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...
Page 131 - ... preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves ; using , for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.- And if, by these means, they should not be enabled to come to an agreement, a resort shall not, on this account, be had to reprisals, aggression, or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, until the government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and...
Page 70 - States in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.