 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 534 pagina’s
...self-defined boundary ; and the rather hazardous question came \ip of giving to Congress " the exclusive power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of...South Sea," " and lay out the land beyond the boundary into new States." The spirit that had prompted a tenderness towards the smaller communities, in the... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1874 - 588 pagina’s
...Confederation were under discussion in Congress, a proposal to insert a provision, giving to Congress the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the Western boundary of such States as claimed to the Mississippi or the South Sea, and to lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 126 pagina’s
...legislatures for ratification, it was moved " that the United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boun1 Diplomatic Correspondence, edited by Sparks, I., p. 79. dary, so ascertained, into separate and... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 116 pagina’s
...Legislatures for ratification, it was moved " that the United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the bounda1y, so ascertained, into separate and independent States, from time to time, as the numbers and... | |
 | 1886 - 662 pagina’s
...this debate that a Maryland delegate moved "that the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lav out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States, from time... | |
 | 1900 - 634 pagina’s
...which received the single vote of that State : "That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or the South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent... | |
 | 1887 - 716 pagina’s
...of Confederation, then under consideration. That the United States, in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...the western boundary of such States as claim to the Minsissippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary, so ascertained, into separate aud... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 pagina’s
...should be settled. A motion was then made that " the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain...boundary of such states as claim to the Mississippi, . . . and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent states,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1889 - 800 pagina’s
...Confederation were under discussion in Congress, a proposal to insert a provision giving to Congress the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such states as claimed to the Mississippi or the " South Sea," and to lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained... | |
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that the United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such states as claim to the Mississippi or... 
