Boundaries of the United States and the Several States: With Miscellaneous Geographic Information Concerning Areas, Altitudes, and Geographic CentersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 191 Seiten |
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... counties . Unfor- tunately , in the case of nations , there usually exist no courts that can make a decision and enforce it . Bitter quarrels have arisen over boundaries and some sur- prising claims have been advanced , such as the cry ...
... counties . Unfor- tunately , in the case of nations , there usually exist no courts that can make a decision and enforce it . Bitter quarrels have arisen over boundaries and some sur- prising claims have been advanced , such as the cry ...
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... counties of Erie , Huron , and Ottawa , was known as the " Fire Lands " because the lands were donated by Connecticut for the use of citizens of Danbury and other places as a recompense for losses by fire and raids by British troops ...
... counties of Erie , Huron , and Ottawa , was known as the " Fire Lands " because the lands were donated by Connecticut for the use of citizens of Danbury and other places as a recompense for losses by fire and raids by British troops ...
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... County , under the jurisdiction of New York , were an- nexed to the New England government by a royal order dated September 18 , 1686. ( Maine Hist . Soc . , 1857 , v . 5 , p . 4. ) The charter of Massachusetts Bay of 1629 having been ...
... County , under the jurisdiction of New York , were an- nexed to the New England government by a royal order dated September 18 , 1686. ( Maine Hist . Soc . , 1857 , v . 5 , p . 4. ) The charter of Massachusetts Bay of 1629 having been ...
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... county of Rutland and State of Vermont , lying westerly from the middle of the deepest channel of Poultney River , as it now runs , and between the middle of the deepest channel of said river and the west line of the State of Vermont as ...
... county of Rutland and State of Vermont , lying westerly from the middle of the deepest channel of Poultney River , as it now runs , and between the middle of the deepest channel of said river and the west line of the State of Vermont as ...
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... County , N.Y. ) were annexed to Massachusetts Bay . The territory west of the Connecticut River to a line within about 20 miles of Hudson River , now forming parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut , was , by agree- ments and concessions ...
... County , N.Y. ) were annexed to Massachusetts Bay . The territory west of the Connecticut River to a line within about 20 miles of Hudson River , now forming parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut , was , by agree- ments and concessions ...
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Seite 27 - River; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea.
Seite 113 - 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.
Seite 38 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of said canal...
Seite 12 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues 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.
Seite 105 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Seite 136 - States, in all respects whatever; and the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri where the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the eastern boundary of.
Seite 28 - Rio Bravo del Norte, or Opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico...
Seite 14 - ... a line drawn from the said point due north or south as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...
Seite 29 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich.) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Seite 28 - Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan Pantoja, second...