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... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , made and passed in the forty - third year of His Majesty's Reign , intituled " An Act for extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice " in the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper ...
... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , made and passed in the forty - third year of His Majesty's Reign , intituled " An Act for extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice " in the Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper ...
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... United States , according to the boundaries determined upon by the convention of 1818 , between the American Government and Great Britain . Its surface is generally level , presenting frequent expansive grassy plains that yield ...
... United States , according to the boundaries determined upon by the convention of 1818 , between the American Government and Great Britain . Its surface is generally level , presenting frequent expansive grassy plains that yield ...
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... United States , from the monument of St. Regis , on the parallel of the 45th degree of north latitude , westward to the Lake of the Woods , was sufficiently settled by the commissioners appointed to decide the same with reference to the ...
... United States , from the monument of St. Regis , on the parallel of the 45th degree of north latitude , westward to the Lake of the Woods , was sufficiently settled by the commissioners appointed to decide the same with reference to the ...
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... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . SIGNED AT PARIS , THE 3RD OF SEPTEMBER , 1783 . ( Extracts . ) ARTICLE I. - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States , viz : New Hampshire , Massachusets Bay , Rhode Island , and Providence ...
... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . SIGNED AT PARIS , THE 3RD OF SEPTEMBER , 1783 . ( Extracts . ) ARTICLE I. - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States , viz : New Hampshire , Massachusets Bay , Rhode Island , and Providence ...
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... united in 1803 , and then this Act was passed . By Mr. DeCosmos : - 34. In the Act of 1821 , in the preamble , we find the words : Animosities and feuds arising from such competition have also , for some years past , kept the interior ...
... united in 1803 , and then this Act was passed . By Mr. DeCosmos : - 34. In the Act of 1821 , in the preamble , we find the words : Animosities and feuds arising from such competition have also , for some years past , kept the interior ...
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Page 17 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Page 342 - 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, to the said Lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 408 - America, do presume, for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey, or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic ocean from the west or north-west...
Page 401 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 401 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario, through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie ; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake...
Page 404 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 401 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 10 - Commissions; as also that no Governor or Commander in Chief in any of our other Colonies or Plantations in America do presume for the present, and until our further Pleasure be known, to grant Warrants of Survey, or pass Patents for any Lands beyond the Heads or Sources of any of the Rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the West and North West, or upon any Lands whatever, which, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us as aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them.
Page 17 - 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 ; thence along the middle of said water communication into the Lake Huron ; thence through the middle of said Lake to the water communication between that Lake and Lake Superior ; thence through Lake Superior.
Page 340 - Bay; and also all such territories, islands, and countries, which have, since the tenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixtythree, been made part of the government of Newfoundland, be, and they are hereby, during His Majesty's pleasure, annexed to, and made part and parcel of the province of Quebec...