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... Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all need- ful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States . " This clause relates to property and not to persons or communities . Mr ...
... Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all need- ful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States . " This clause relates to property and not to persons or communities . Mr ...
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... congress was called in 1774 , and delegates went to the Continental Congress . Upon the abandonment of the colony by the royal governor in 1775 the provincial congress assumed control and government . On March 26 , 1776 , the ...
... congress was called in 1774 , and delegates went to the Continental Congress . Upon the abandonment of the colony by the royal governor in 1775 the provincial congress assumed control and government . On March 26 , 1776 , the ...
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... congress of delegates . A congress of governors and commissioners of colonies was held at Albany , N. Y. , in 1722 , and a congress of colonial commissioners from New Hampshire , Massa- chusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ...
... congress of delegates . A congress of governors and commissioners of colonies was held at Albany , N. Y. , in 1722 , and a congress of colonial commissioners from New Hampshire , Massa- chusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York ...
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... Congress of delegates from thirteen colonies assembled in Philadelphia , according to recommendations of the first , and among the things done by the delegates was to give their reasons for an appeal to arms and to vote to raise twenty ...
... Congress of delegates from thirteen colonies assembled in Philadelphia , according to recommendations of the first , and among the things done by the delegates was to give their reasons for an appeal to arms and to vote to raise twenty ...
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... Congress , which took it into consideration on the 21st of February , 1787 . THE CONSTITUTION . A committee , Mr. Dane , chairman , reported to Congress upon the Annapolis report and memorial , and recommended the calling of a ...
... Congress , which took it into consideration on the 21st of February , 1787 . THE CONSTITUTION . A committee , Mr. Dane , chairman , reported to Congress upon the Annapolis report and memorial , and recommended the calling of a ...
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Page 130 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 66 - 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 152 - 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 65 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 98 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 151 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 145 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 154 - 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 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...
Page 146 - If it appears from the decision of the court that several parties are entitled to separate and different portions of the claim, each party may pay for his portion of the claim with the proper fees, and file the certificate and description by the...
Page 153 - The three preceding sections shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof...