 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...United States any district in the said State not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress might fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States ; And the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the 3d day of... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 152 pages
...SLAVEHOLDING NATION. ' 91 danger arises, not from freedom granted, but from freedom withheld. CHAPTER XVII. THE U. STATES A SLAVEHOLDING NATION, Thousands of...hereby forever ceded to the Congress and Government of ihe United States, in full and absolute right, and EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION as well of soil as of persons... | |
 | William Elliot - Plants - 1837 - 350 pages
...United States any district in the said state, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress might fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States. And the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the third day... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...United States any district in the said State not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress might fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States; And the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the 3d day of... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...required on the behalf of this state, to cede to the Congress of the United States, any district in this state, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress...and accept for the seat of government of the United States." Laws of Maryland, vol. 2, chap. 46. The cession from Virginia was made by act of the Legislature... | |
 | District of Columbia - Law - 1868 - 506 pages
...United States any district in the said State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress might fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States. And the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the 3d day of... | |
 | John B. Ellis - History - 1869 - 548 pages
...Maryland,,through its Legislature, on the 23d of December, 1788, offered to Congress " any district (not exceeding ten miles square) which the Congress...and accept for the seat of Government of the United States." The matter was debated in Congress in 1789. It was agreed on all sides that the district ought... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 944 pages
...required, on the behalf of this State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any district in this State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon aud accept for the seat of government of the Uuited States. Virginia also offered to advance $120,000... | |
 | United States. Department of Education - African Americans - 1871 - 944 pages
...required, on the behalf of this State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any distru t in Ibis State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress...and accept for the seat of government of the United States. Virginia also offered to advance ยง120,000 and Maryland $72,000 for the purposes of the federal... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - United States - 1871 - 90 pages
...required, on the behalf of this State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any district in this State not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress...and accept for the seat of government of the United States. AN ACT concerning the territory of Columbia and the city of Washington. [Lib. JG No. 1, fol.... | |
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March next, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required on behalf of this State to cede to the Congress of the United States any district in this State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon and accept for the seat of Government... 
