Journals of Congress: 3d day of Nov. 1783 to 3d day of June, 1784. Journal of the Committee of the States ... proceedings from 1st Fri. in June, 1784 to 2d Fri. in Aug. 1784 (47 p.) [Philadelphia J. Dunlap, 1784 |
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Page 14 - But the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command ; it will continue to animate remotest ages.
Page 27 - ... of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 26 - Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude...
Page 28 - United States: And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated...
Page 26 - Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that lake and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior...
Page 26 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods...
Page 26 - Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron...
Page 27 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 154 - ... 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 115 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
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| Title | Journals of Congress: 3d day of Nov. 1783 to 3d day of June, 1784. Journal of the Committee of the States ... proceedings from 1st Fri. in June, 1784 to 2d Fri. in Aug. 1784 (47 p.) [Philadelphia J. Dunlap, 1784 Volume 9 of Journals of Congress: Containing the Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to [3d Day of November 1788], United States. Continental Congress |
| Author | United States. Continental Congress |
| Publisher | R. Aitken, 1777 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2006 |
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