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" Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties. "
Democratic Speeches on Kansas: Pamphlet Vol.] - Page 5
1856
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Annual Report of the Illinois State Bar Association

Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 538 pages
...Kaskaskias, Saint Vincents, and the neighboring villages who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia shall have their possessions • and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." And the report of the committee of Congress agreed to on June 20, 1788 provided: "That the Governor...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the ..., Book 8

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1292 pages
...boring villages who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions ami titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." Under the laws of Virginia, the citizens of UK nois County had a right to purchase and hold slaves;...
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The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American ...

Malcolm J. Rohrbough - History - 1968 - 346 pages
...Kaskaskies, Saint Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." The Ordinance of 1787 confirmed this right, and Congress later expanded the general declaration by...
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Frontier Illinois

James E. Davis - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 546 pages
...valne.2 Virginia's Act of Cession promised the French inhabitants in lllinois and along the Wabash "shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." This protected slavery, creating festering sores in lllinois for decades.iI Virginia. fnrthermore....
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The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's ...

the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...Capo Press, 1971J, 11:31. The Virginia deed of cession required that the French inhabitants should "have their possessions and titles confirmed to them and be protected in the enforcement of their rights and liberties." The ordinance permitted retention of the "laws and customs...
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 26

United States. Congress - Law - 1857 - 482 pages
...citizens of Virginia, shall have their possi-v ion- and lilies confirmed 10 them, ami be protected in tlie enjoyment of their rights and liberties." Now we see...condition that it was to be made into States in due time, and that the people then there should be protected in their property and liberties. There is...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 47

Law - 1897 - 1148 pages
...Kaskaskiês, St. Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." See a full history of the proceedings in regard to these French settlements In Doe v. Hill, Beecher's...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 1975

United States - 1881 - 790 pages
...Kaskaskies, Si. Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties. That a quantity not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres of laud, promised by this State,...
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Papers in Illinois History and Transactions

Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1917 - 144 pages
...Vincents and the neighboring villages, who have1 professed themselves citizens of the state of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." These provisions cover substantially all classes of persons but one, which was that of the older inhabitants,...
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois ..., Issue 6

Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1901 - 130 pages
...Vincents, and neighboring villages who hare professed themselves citizens of the state of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed...protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties." An attempt was made to have Congress accept the deed of cession with a proviso that after 1800 there...
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