Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands, Primitive Education, Religion, Morals, Indians, Etc., with Authentic Records of the Origin and Growth of Pioneer Settlements, Embracing Also a Condensed History of the States and TerritoriesR. Douglass, 1879 - 784 Seiten |
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... East India Company . The region which the Dutch claime account of this discovery , was called Nova Belgia , or New Ne land ; and a town , to which the name of New Amsterdam given , was laid out on Manhattan island , the site of the ci ...
... East India Company . The region which the Dutch claime account of this discovery , was called Nova Belgia , or New Ne land ; and a town , to which the name of New Amsterdam given , was laid out on Manhattan island , the site of the ci ...
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... east end of every church , " etc. , " or chan of the same , " " and placed in some other fit and convenient plac in the churches , etc. Rails before the altars to be taken aw Raised chancel grounds to be taken down . All tapers , cano ...
... east end of every church , " etc. , " or chan of the same , " " and placed in some other fit and convenient plac in the churches , etc. Rails before the altars to be taken aw Raised chancel grounds to be taken down . All tapers , cano ...
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... East , " says Robertson , in his history of India , " the sole property of land seems to be vested in the sover- eign , " and lands are rented to farmers on conditions similar to those which were common in India from a very remote ...
... East , " says Robertson , in his history of India , " the sole property of land seems to be vested in the sover- eign , " and lands are rented to farmers on conditions similar to those which were common in India from a very remote ...
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... east and west . The distance between the lines was deter- mined by the magnitude of the squares into which it was proposed to divide a tract of land . By a Roman agrarian law , enacted 365 B. C. , no person was allowed to own more than ...
... east and west . The distance between the lines was deter- mined by the magnitude of the squares into which it was proposed to divide a tract of land . By a Roman agrarian law , enacted 365 B. C. , no person was allowed to own more than ...
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... east and northeast , or towards the north , as the coast lyeth , together with all the islands within one hundred miles , directly over against the said coast ; and also all the lands , woods , " etc. , " from the same fifty miles every ...
... east and northeast , or towards the north , as the coast lyeth , together with all the islands within one hundred miles , directly over against the said coast ; and also all the lands , woods , " etc. , " from the same fifty miles every ...
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Seite 441 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Seite 443 - 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...
Seite 440 - Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as aforesaid; and whenever a vacancy shall happen in the council by death or removal from office, the house of representatives shall nominate two persons qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names...
Seite 437 - ... conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered, by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers, shall be appointed for that purpose...
Seite 439 - Previous to the organization of the general assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...
Seite 147 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and north-west as aforesaid; and we do hereby strictly forbid, on pain of our displeasure, all our loving subjects from making any purchases or settlements whatever, or taking possession of any of the lands above reserved, without our special leave and license for that purpose first obtained.
Seite 537 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...
Seite 51 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Seite 17 - And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said ; Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did ? But he turned and rebuked them, and said ; Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Seite 105 - ... whose wages shall be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those...