 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 Seiten
...ensuing, should be, and they were thereby authorized and required, on the behalf of the said State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any district...commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the 3d day of December, 1789, and entitled, "An act for the cession of ten miles square, or any lesser... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 Seiten
...ensuing, should be, and they were thereby authorized and required, on the behalf of the said State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any district...commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the 3d day of December, 1789, and entitled, "An act for the cession of ten miles square, or any lesser... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 174 Seiten
...to the Congress "any district in the State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon, and accept for the seat of government of the United States." A similar act was passed by Virginia, on the 3d of December, 1789, in these words — "And... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 152 Seiten
...to the Congress " any district in the State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon, and accept for the seat of government of the United States." A similar act was passed by Virginia, on the 3d of December, 1789, in these words — And... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Weld - 1838 - 66 Seiten
...Wednesday of March next, be, and they are hereby authorized and 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, and accept for the seat... | |
 | George Washington - 1848 - 612 Seiten
...ensuing, should he, and they were therehy authorized and required, on the hehalf of the said State, to cede to the Congress of the United States any district...government of the United States ; And the General Assemhly of the commonwealth of Virginia, hy an act passed on the 3d day of Decemher, 1789, and entitled,... | |
 | District of Columbia - 1868 - 506 Seiten
...Wednesday of 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 npon and accept for the seat... | |
 | John B. Ellis - 1869 - 548 Seiten
...December, 1788, offered to Congress " any district (not exceeding ten miles square) which the Congress may fix upon 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... | |
 | 1870 - 944 Seiten
...Wednesday of March next, be, and they are hereby, authorized and 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Education - 1871 - 944 Seiten
...behalf of the said State, to cede to the Congress of the United Stales any district in the said Slato, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress...fix upon and accept for the seat of government of fhe United States ; And the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by an act passed on the... | |
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State, in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New York on the first Wednesday of March then next ensuing, should be, and they were thereby authorized and required, on the behalf of the said State,... 
