A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America: From the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Day, Volume 3A. Constable and Company, 1819 - Indians of North America |
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... dollars a - year . A man on foot pays half a dollar , and twice this sum with a horse . The boatmen who descend the Mississippi to New Orleans return home by this route . The ferry- expences incurred here , on account of the Tennessee ...
... dollars a - year . A man on foot pays half a dollar , and twice this sum with a horse . The boatmen who descend the Mississippi to New Orleans return home by this route . The ferry- expences incurred here , on account of the Tennessee ...
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... dollars an acre . A large tract , situated in the district east of Pearl river , between the Chickesaha river on the west , the rivers Mobile and Tombigbee on the east , the 31st de- gree of latitude on the south , and on the north by ...
... dollars an acre . A large tract , situated in the district east of Pearl river , between the Chickesaha river on the west , the rivers Mobile and Tombigbee on the east , the 31st de- gree of latitude on the south , and on the north by ...
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... dollars each . The wages of a good workman are two dollars a - day . --- Commerce . It was stated in the American journals of April 1817 , that the importations of the preceding year , at Mobile , from Boston , New York , and New ...
... dollars each . The wages of a good workman are two dollars a - day . --- Commerce . It was stated in the American journals of April 1817 , that the importations of the preceding year , at Mobile , from Boston , New York , and New ...
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... dollars . At the land- office the price is fixed by law at two dollars . The United States have obtained , by different cessions made The following is given by Mr Birkbeck as the necessary outlay on a settlement of a quarter section ...
... dollars . At the land- office the price is fixed by law at two dollars . The United States have obtained , by different cessions made The following is given by Mr Birkbeck as the necessary outlay on a settlement of a quarter section ...
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... dollars ; cows , 10 to 20 ; a sow , 3 to 5. Mechanics ' wages , 1 to 1 dollar . A waggon , 35 or 40 dollars , exclusive of tier to the wheels ; a strong waggon for the road , complete , 160 ; bricks are laid at 8 dollars by the thousand ...
... dollars ; cows , 10 to 20 ; a sow , 3 to 5. Mechanics ' wages , 1 to 1 dollar . A waggon , 35 or 40 dollars , exclusive of tier to the wheels ; a strong waggon for the road , complete , 160 ; bricks are laid at 8 dollars by the thousand ...
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Page 374 - The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 285 - Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 375 - 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 320 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in cases provided for by treaty, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation.
Page 371 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish, in the District, such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district...
Page 480 - Chandler, Thomas Bradbury. An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America, dedicated to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
Page 103 - Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south...
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Page 319 - ... be approved and admitted by the Government to which He is sent, and it is hereby declared that in case of illegal or improper conduct towards the Laws or Government of the Country to which He is sent such Consul may either be punished according to law if the laws will reach the case or be sent back the offended Government assigning to the other the reasons for the same.
Page 477 - A Juvenile Bible Society has also been recently organized in the same Congregation. At a meeting of the Charitable Society for the Education of Pious Young Men for the Ministry of the Gospel, held at New-Haven the 12th instant, the Rev.