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... United States , is bounded as follows ( given in treaty of cession of March 30 , 1867 ) : Commencing at 54 ° 40 ′ north latitude , ascending Portland Channel to the mountains , following their summits to 141 ° west longitude ; thence ...
... United States , is bounded as follows ( given in treaty of cession of March 30 , 1867 ) : Commencing at 54 ° 40 ′ north latitude , ascending Portland Channel to the mountains , following their summits to 141 ° west longitude ; thence ...
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... United States , done at Ghent , Belgium , December 24 , 1814 , by James Lord Gambier , Henry Goulburn , and William Adams on behalf of Great Britain ; and John Quincy Adams , J. A. Bayard , Henry Clay , Jonathan Russell , and Albert ...
... United States , done at Ghent , Belgium , December 24 , 1814 , by James Lord Gambier , Henry Goulburn , and William Adams on behalf of Great Britain ; and John Quincy Adams , J. A. Bayard , Henry Clay , Jonathan Russell , and Albert ...
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... United States , at Washington , D. C. , on August 9 , 1842 , concluded a treaty which settled the northeastern boundary line of the United States ( as indicated in the definitive treaty with Great Britain in 1783 , and under the fifth ...
... United States , at Washington , D. C. , on August 9 , 1842 , concluded a treaty which settled the northeastern boundary line of the United States ( as indicated in the definitive treaty with Great Britain in 1783 , and under the fifth ...
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... United States and the British possessions from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains . Archibald Campbell was appointed commis- sioner on the part of the United States , and Capt . D. R. Cameron , R. A. , on behalf ...
... United States and the British possessions from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains . Archibald Campbell was appointed commis- sioner on the part of the United States , and Capt . D. R. Cameron , R. A. , on behalf ...
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... United States and Le Comte Charles De Nesselrode and Pierre de Poletica on behalf of Russia . Great Britain not desiring that the United States should have an advantage by the definition , inferentially or otherwise , of the boundary ...
... United States and Le Comte Charles De Nesselrode and Pierre de Poletica on behalf of Russia . Great Britain not desiring that the United States should have an advantage by the definition , inferentially or otherwise , of the boundary ...
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Page 155 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 58 - That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May next, a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such...
Page 96 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States...
Page 154 - The general assembly or legislature shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years unless sooner removed by Congress; any three of whom to be a quorum: and the members...
Page 96 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 151 - 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.
Page 131 - If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the governments of the two republics, whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning the political or commercial relations of the two nations, the said governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will...
Page 70 - 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...
Page 131 - ... preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves ; using , for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.- And if, by these means, they should not be enabled to come to an agreement, a resort shall not, on this account, be had to reprisals, aggression, or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, until the government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and...
Page 70 - States in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.