Annals of North America: Being a Concise Account of the Important Events in the United States, the British Provinces, and Mexico, from Their Discovery Down to the Present Time (1492-1876) Showing the Steps in Their Political, Religious, Social, Legislative, and Industrial ProgressLibrary Reprints, Incorporated, 1877 - 810 páginas |
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... fifty - five thou- sand pounds were exported to Holland , but none to England . The reason why no tobacco was sent to England , was the impost which had been laid upon it . The price in the colony was limited to three shillings , and ...
... fifty - five thou- sand pounds were exported to Holland , but none to England . The reason why no tobacco was sent to England , was the impost which had been laid upon it . The price in the colony was limited to three shillings , and ...
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... fifty thousand pounds , which was all lost . The king continued Governor Wyatt in office , and in his instructions confined him and the council to such authority as they had exercised for the past five years . The assembly continued to ...
... fifty thousand pounds , which was all lost . The king continued Governor Wyatt in office , and in his instructions confined him and the council to such authority as they had exercised for the past five years . The assembly continued to ...
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... fifty or sixty persons to make a settlement . - 1628 , SEPTEMBER 14. The company with Endicott arrived at Naumkeag , and sent an expedition to explore the head of Massachusetts Bay . They changed the name of their settlement to Salem ...
... fifty or sixty persons to make a settlement . - 1628 , SEPTEMBER 14. The company with Endicott arrived at Naumkeag , and sent an expedition to explore the head of Massachusetts Bay . They changed the name of their settlement to Salem ...
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... fifty pounds contributed to the stock by a member of the company entitled him to two hundred acres of land , and the same proportion for smaller amounts . Per- sons not stockholders , emigrating at their own expense , were allowed fifty ...
... fifty pounds contributed to the stock by a member of the company entitled him to two hundred acres of land , and the same proportion for smaller amounts . Per- sons not stockholders , emigrating at their own expense , were allowed fifty ...
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... fifty , the Spanish about a hun- dred and thirty , and the English about fifty , vessels engaged in it . Naturally , therefore , it was one of the first occupations to engage the attention of the set- tlers , and brought them directly ...
... fifty , the Spanish about a hun- dred and thirty , and the English about fifty , vessels engaged in it . Naturally , therefore , it was one of the first occupations to engage the attention of the set- tlers , and brought them directly ...
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Página 703 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 619 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Página 710 - ... clothed, armed, and equipped, in the same manner as the quota of such state, unless the legislature of such state shall judge that such extra number...
Página 651 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Página 709 - ... office — appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of congress, to be denominated...
Página 707 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year.
Página 654 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Página 706 - WHEREAS the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...
Página 606 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 703 - For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable...