The Centennial Northwest: An Illustrated History of the Northwest, Being a Full and Complete Civil, Political and Military History of this Great Section of the United States, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time |
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... lake Erie , on the east by Pennsylvania and West Virginia , on the south by West Virginia and Ken- tucky , and on the west by Indiana . Its extreme length from north to south is about 200 miles , and its width about 195 miles . A level ...
... lake Erie , on the east by Pennsylvania and West Virginia , on the south by West Virginia and Ken- tucky , and on the west by Indiana . Its extreme length from north to south is about 200 miles , and its width about 195 miles . A level ...
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... Lake Erie belong to Ohio . These produce a fine qual- ity of grapes . The principal minerals of the state are coal and iron . However , lime and marble are found and worked in large quantities . Salt springs are numerous and valuable ...
... Lake Erie belong to Ohio . These produce a fine qual- ity of grapes . The principal minerals of the state are coal and iron . However , lime and marble are found and worked in large quantities . Salt springs are numerous and valuable ...
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... Lake Michigan washes a large stretch of the northern boundary of the state , Michigan City being the principal town on the lake shore . The Ohio river is important to Indiana , in the same sense that it is to Ohio , washing , as it does ...
... Lake Michigan washes a large stretch of the northern boundary of the state , Michigan City being the principal town on the lake shore . The Ohio river is important to Indiana , in the same sense that it is to Ohio , washing , as it does ...
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... Lake Superior specular and red hematite ores are landed from vessels that are able to run in a direct course from the ore banks . Lake Superior ore is similar in quality to that from the Iron Mountain in Missouri , and is as well ...
... Lake Superior specular and red hematite ores are landed from vessels that are able to run in a direct course from the ore banks . Lake Superior ore is similar in quality to that from the Iron Mountain in Missouri , and is as well ...
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... lake Huron , the lake and river St. Clair , the Detroit river and lake Erie , which separate it from Canada , on the south by Ohio , Indi- ana and Wisconsin , and on the west by Wisconsin and lake Mich- igan . Lakes Michigan and Huron ...
... lake Huron , the lake and river St. Clair , the Detroit river and lake Erie , which separate it from Canada , on the south by Ohio , Indi- ana and Wisconsin , and on the west by Wisconsin and lake Mich- igan . Lakes Michigan and Huron ...
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Page 180 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 182 - 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 : Provided, The constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 241 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 177 - Governor, whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress ; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in one thousand acres of land, while in the exercise of his office. ^' There shall be appointed from time to time, by Congress, a Secretary, whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked...
Page 176 - ... 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; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have in equal parts among them their deceased parents.
Page 313 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid 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...
Page 178 - That a freehold in fifty acres of land in the district, having been a citizen of one of the states, and being resident in the district, or the like freehold and two years residence in the district, shall be necessary to qualify a man as an elector of a representative.
Page 182 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 181 - There shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same...
Page 175 - 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...