Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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Additional instruction American Historical Association American revolution annual archives bibliography 1911 Boston Canada Carolina CATH Charles church colonial Commission as vice commissions and instructions committee Congress council dated documents East Florida Edward England facsims France French genealogical George governor of Barbadoes Henry Herbert Baxter Adams HIST illus Indian James John JOUR July lands Leeward Islands letter lieutenant governor London Lord manuscript maps Mass Massachusetts Mexico N. J. Arch North Carolina Nova Scotia papers Pennsylvania Phila plates ports president PROC published QUAR records relating Revolution Royal secretary Senate Sept Société Spanish submitted Apr submitted June submitted Mar Texas Thomas tion Trade instructions treaty United University vice admiral Virginia Vital records warrant to prepare Washington West William XVII York
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Page 347 - Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom...
Page 179 - ... inquire into the expediency of limiting, for a certain period, the sales of the public lands, to such as have heretofore been offered for sale ; and whether sundry offices connected with the sales of the lands might not be abolished without detriment to the public service.
Page 3 - The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the National Museum at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe.
Page 153 - Powers, not implicated in this war, from giving, on this occasion of common concern to every civilized State, any protection whatever, directly or indirectly, in consequence of their neutrality, to the commerce or property of the French, on the sea or in the ports of France.
Page 298 - Copies of the FIRST ISSUE, giving an Account of the History, Organization, and Conditions of Membership of the various Societies, and forming the groundwork of the Series, may still be had, price 7/6. Also Copies of the Issues following.
Page 3 - White, of Ithaca, in the State of New York; George Bancroft, of Washington, in the District of Columbia; Justin Winsor, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts; William F. Poole, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois ; Herbert B. Adams, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; Clarence W.
Page 3 - Said association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America.
Page 313 - America for the year nineteen hundred and three, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Page 706 - Grand lodge of the most ancient and honorable fraternity of Free and accepted masons of Pennsylvania, and masonic jurisdiction thereunto belonging.
Page 167 - The people of the United States are divided, by a geographical line, into two great and distinct sections. The people who live along the Atlantic on the east side of the Alleghany Mountains, and who compose the three great classes of merchants, manufacturers, and agriculturists, and those who occupy the west side of those mountains, who are exclusively agriculturists." In western New York 15,000,000 of acres, "a dreary and uninhabited wilderness" in 1790, by 1810 were covered with settlements.