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... portion of the public domain coming under the jurisdiction of the General Land Office . The territory now included within the limits of Tennessee , according to the terms of the above definition , was as substantially a portion of said ...
... portion of the public domain coming under the jurisdiction of the General Land Office . The territory now included within the limits of Tennessee , according to the terms of the above definition , was as substantially a portion of said ...
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... portion of the above - described colony of Laconia situated between the two lines , each sixty miles long , traversing the entire length of the Merrimack and Piscataqua Rivers , and joined at their inland extremi- ties by a straight ...
... portion of the above - described colony of Laconia situated between the two lines , each sixty miles long , traversing the entire length of the Merrimack and Piscataqua Rivers , and joined at their inland extremi- ties by a straight ...
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... portion of Laconia west of the Piscataqua , not having been purchased by Massachusetts , was not thereafter a portion of that prov ince . In 1679 the King ordered a commission for organizing this territory into a separate government ...
... portion of Laconia west of the Piscataqua , not having been purchased by Massachusetts , was not thereafter a portion of that prov ince . In 1679 the King ordered a commission for organizing this territory into a separate government ...
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... portion of the South Carolina cession lying within her present boundaries , thus adding a strip twelve miles wide to her northern frontier and making her coter- minous with North Carolina and Tennessee . These cessions were accompanied ...
... portion of the South Carolina cession lying within her present boundaries , thus adding a strip twelve miles wide to her northern frontier and making her coter- minous with North Carolina and Tennessee . These cessions were accompanied ...
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... portion of Louisiana called Oregon , based upon the discovery of the mouth of the Columbia River by Captain Gray in ... portions of Alabama and Mississippi south of the thirty - first parallel , the entire surface of the States of ...
... portion of Louisiana called Oregon , based upon the discovery of the mouth of the Columbia River by Captain Gray in ... portions of Alabama and Mississippi south of the thirty - first parallel , the entire surface of the States of ...
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Page 22 - ... may be conveyed by lease and release or bargain and sale signed, sealed and delivered by the person being of full age in whom the estate may be and attested by two witnesses...
Page 22 - That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory dying intestate shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants then in equal parts to the...
Page 22 - ... part of the personal estate ; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in full force, until altered by the legislature of the district.
Page 22 - ... there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree ; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have in equal parts among them their deceased parent's share ; and there shall in no case be a distinction between kindred of the whole and half blood...
Page 254 - Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim ; but nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent.
Page 270 - States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies, and that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever...
Page 10 - ... distance from New Castle northward, and westward, unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of Northern latitude, and then by a strait line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned...
Page 230 - ... we find at New York, the summer of Rome, and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris, and the winter of St Petersburgh. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters are as rigorous as at Upsal.
Page 6 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London, for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 22 - ... courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose; and personal property may be transferred by delivery, saving, however, to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the...