Origin and Government of the District of ColumbiaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 224 páginas |
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$100 per annum 28 Stat acres act of Congress affirmative aforesaid amendment amount annum appointed assembly Assembly of Maryland assessment authorized avenue bill ceded certificates city of Washington Commissioners committee Constitution council court Creek Daniel Carroll December 23 deeds Delaware directed District of Columbia duties Eastern Branch enacted Engineers erected exceeding exclusive legislation executive February February 21 Federal fees Georgetown hereby House Jersey June June 30 jurisdiction land license located lots March Maryland Massachusetts mayor ment miles square motion negatived North November owner paid Pennsylvania permanent seat persons Philadelphia police postpone Potomac River President proprietors public buildings purchase purpose recorder removal residence of Congress resolution Resolved respective Rhode Island SEAL seat of government Senate session South Carolina streets Territory of Columbia thereof Thomas Beall tion town trict United Virginia voting Wednesday York
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Página 83 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby, for ever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the Government of the United States...
Página 11 - That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the limits of the District of Columbia...
Página 84 - IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I HAVE CAUSED THESE LETTERS TO BE MADE PATENT, AND THE SEAL OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE TO BE HEREUNTO AFFIXED.
Página 140 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy.
Página 18 - That the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall have power to purchase or accept such quantity of land on the eastern side of the said river within the said district as the President shall deem proper for the use of the United States, and according to such plans as the President shall approve.
Página 69 - That a district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located as hereafter directed on the river Potomac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch and Connogochegue, be, and the same is hereby, accepted for the permanent seat of the gov. ernment of the United States.
Página 83 - That nothing herein contained shall be so construed to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to affect the rights of individuals therein, otherwise than the same shall or may be transferred by such individuals to the United States...
Página 55 - September, did resolve unanimously that the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case...
Página 91 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Página 140 - State comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy. This consideration has the more weight, as the gradual accumulation of public improvements at the stationary residence of the government would be both too great a public pledge to be left in the hands of a single State, and would create...