The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary for the Reference of the Politicians and Statesmen of the United States |
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... territory of Mississippi was constituted into a territory , called Ala- bama . This act was silent as to slavery . By Act of March 2 , 1819 , the people of Alabama territory were authorized to form a state government . This act was ...
... territory of Mississippi was constituted into a territory , called Ala- bama . This act was silent as to slavery . By Act of March 2 , 1819 , the people of Alabama territory were authorized to form a state government . This act was ...
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... TERRITORY . The organic law passed and approved by Congress , contained a similar provision to that of the Oregon bill . The territorial Legislature have passed the following act : - " All free white male inhabitants over the age of ...
... TERRITORY . The organic law passed and approved by Congress , contained a similar provision to that of the Oregon bill . The territorial Legislature have passed the following act : - " All free white male inhabitants over the age of ...
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... territory , erritory , or to the people of any territory , to declare who shall , as citizens of the territory , vote to erect themselves into an independent state , and by association with the states in the Union , to take their share ...
... territory , erritory , or to the people of any territory , to declare who shall , as citizens of the territory , vote to erect themselves into an independent state , and by association with the states in the Union , to take their share ...
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... territory of Minnesota , you fixed by the organic law the right of suffrage , leaving it to the people of the territory , in the exercise of the legisla- tive power recognised as in their legislature , to fix the qualification of voters ...
... territory of Minnesota , you fixed by the organic law the right of suffrage , leaving it to the people of the territory , in the exercise of the legisla- tive power recognised as in their legislature , to fix the qualification of voters ...
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... territory , in order that Congress might raise money on this security to carry tary servitude , except as a punishment for crime , shall be for ever prohibited in all that part of the territory ceded by France , under the name of ...
... territory , in order that Congress might raise money on this security to carry tary servitude , except as a punishment for crime , shall be for ever prohibited in all that part of the territory ceded by France , under the name of ...
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