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... person of every nine within her borders was either a negro or an Indian , -four or five times . as great a ... persons , and Lord Say and Sele in 1642 testifies to the understanding in Eng- land that the same settlements had grown by ...
... person of every nine within her borders was either a negro or an Indian , -four or five times . as great a ... persons , and Lord Say and Sele in 1642 testifies to the understanding in Eng- land that the same settlements had grown by ...
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... persons recorded annually with more or less fulness in the assessments of rates by the Colonial Assembly are our best clues to the population , though these lists do not cover unincorporated neighborhoods , and new towns were apt to be ...
... persons recorded annually with more or less fulness in the assessments of rates by the Colonial Assembly are our best clues to the population , though these lists do not cover unincorporated neighborhoods , and new towns were apt to be ...
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... persons . The British Government in 1749 estimated 250,000 whites in Pennsylvania and Delaware ( Pitkin's Statist . View , 2d ed . , 12 ) . +31,667 taxables in Pennsylvania alone ( Col. Records , xiv . , 336 ) . Compare the estimate ...
... persons . The British Government in 1749 estimated 250,000 whites in Pennsylvania and Delaware ( Pitkin's Statist . View , 2d ed . , 12 ) . +31,667 taxables in Pennsylvania alone ( Col. Records , xiv . , 336 ) . Compare the estimate ...
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... persons . It took seven years for these to increase to 5,000 , and five years more to bring them up to 7,500.7 Then came a speedier growth , so that the last figure was doubled in eight years , and this doubled again in eleven more , or ...
... persons . It took seven years for these to increase to 5,000 , and five years more to bring them up to 7,500.7 Then came a speedier growth , so that the last figure was doubled in eight years , and this doubled again in eleven more , or ...
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... persons not members , and seventy - five societies and institutions . Attention need hardly be called to the valuable and unique gift of Messrs . Salisbury and Thompson which so fittingly adorns the Salisbury Annex , for it is a leading ...
... persons not members , and seventy - five societies and institutions . Attention need hardly be called to the valuable and unique gift of Messrs . Salisbury and Thompson which so fittingly adorns the Salisbury Annex , for it is a leading ...
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Seite 330 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Seite 328 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Seite 331 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 327 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Seite 329 - The legislatures of those districts, or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the Unite'd States in Congress assem-bled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Seite 327 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Seite 322 - Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that there shall be appointed from time to time, by Congress, a governor whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress...
Seite 322 - There shall be appointed from time to time, by congress, a secretary whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in five hundred acres of land, while in the exercise of his office...
Seite 330 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due North from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line. — The Eastern...
Seite 321 - ... may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be, (being of full age,) and attested by three witnesses ; and real estates 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, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within...