Documents, Messages and Other Communications, Made to the General Assembly, Part 1

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Page 594 - To extend Mason and Dixon's line due west five degrees of longitude, to be computed from the river Delaware, for the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, and that a meridian, drawn from the western extremity thereof, to the northern limit of said State, be the western boundary of said State forever.
Page 587 - Treasurer and Company of Adventurers of the city of London for the first colony in Virginia...
Page 589 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the...
Page 458 - I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
Page 296 - An act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and other, banking companies.
Page 587 - Assigns, all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West...
Page 316 - Should a vacancy occur in either of these offices subsequent to an election, it shall be filled by the governor, and the person so appointed shall continue in office until his successor shall be elected and qualified.
Page 588 - To the Scandinavian imagination, hope painted the New World as a paradise ; the proposed colony as a benefit to the persecuted, a security " to the honor of the wives and daughters " of those whom wars and bigotry had made fugitives ; a blessing to the " common man ; " to the
Page 64 - There shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees, on the nomination of the Superintendent, a Chaplain, who shall be a clergyman, and resident during the time of his service, in or near the city of Columbus.
Page 589 - The said land to extend westward five degrees in longitude, to be computed from the said eastern bounds, and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...

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