House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Հատոր 4 |
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... Governors and Commandants . " Answer of Gregorio Mora : - That he was employed as procura- dor in Nacogdoches , and knows ... Governor's and Commandant's orders relative to the premises . It was not uncommon to grant large and extensive ...
... Governors and Commandants . " Answer of Gregorio Mora : - That he was employed as procura- dor in Nacogdoches , and knows ... Governor's and Commandant's orders relative to the premises . It was not uncommon to grant large and extensive ...
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... governor of the province ? " Answer of Samuel Davenport . All grants signed and confirmed by the lieutenant governor or commandant , executed in due form , were considered as vesting a complete title in the claimant , without any ...
... governor of the province ? " Answer of Samuel Davenport . All grants signed and confirmed by the lieutenant governor or commandant , executed in due form , were considered as vesting a complete title in the claimant , without any ...
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... Governor Herrara , in the year eighteen hun- dred and six ; yet it was seldom exercised or enforced . " It appears to be an historical fact , that the strip of country called the Neutral Territory , was early disputed by the ancient ...
... Governor Herrara , in the year eighteen hun- dred and six ; yet it was seldom exercised or enforced . " It appears to be an historical fact , that the strip of country called the Neutral Territory , was early disputed by the ancient ...
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... Governor . Military and Political , of the town of Nacogdoches and jurisdiction , in consequence of the prayer of Pierre and Baptist Laf- fitt , inhabitants of this jurisdiction of Texas . with the approbation of their father , Paul ...
... Governor . Military and Political , of the town of Nacogdoches and jurisdiction , in consequence of the prayer of Pierre and Baptist Laf- fitt , inhabitants of this jurisdiction of Texas . with the approbation of their father , Paul ...
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... Governor , and Judge Delegate of smuggling and forfeitures , and Chief Justice of the town of Na . del Pibar of Nacogdoches and its jurisdiction : whereas Iph . [ torn ] has appeared by petition , bearing date the 5th of August , in the ...
... Governor , and Judge Delegate of smuggling and forfeitures , and Chief Justice of the town of Na . del Pibar of Nacogdoches and its jurisdiction : whereas Iph . [ torn ] has appeared by petition , bearing date the 5th of August , in the ...
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22d of February Abstract American acres arpens front assignee Attakapas bank Bayou Board bounded Branch Bank certificate claim is supported claimant's improvements claims a tract Commissioners containing 640 acres cultivation dated Department documents of title duly sworn Duval embrace February 21 filed his notice following testimony forty arpens Governor grant growing corn habitation honor James JAMES BARBOUR James Gadsden John know the land land claimed land is lying land is situated land lying land was inhabited land was occupied late Neutral Territory letter living and growing lying and situate Nacogdoches Opelousas opinion this claim order of survey ordinary seaman parish of Natchitoches Pierre present rations requêtte river road Samuel Davenport seaman 6 72 Secretary Secretary of War sides by vacant situated and lying superficial arpens Tallahassee therein described third class tract of land Treasury treaty uninterruptedly continued United vacant land virtue of inhabitation virtue of occupation
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Էջ 24 - I ki-c not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war...
Էջ 21 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers...
Էջ 28 - Jersey, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
Էջ 31 - I do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions...
Էջ 7 - A necessary consequence of this state of things will be, that the American continents, henceforth, will no longer be subject to colonization. Occupied by civilized, independent nations, they will be accessible to Europeans, and to each other, on that footing alone; and the Pacific Ocean, in every part of it, will remain open to the navigation of all nations in like manner with the Atlantic. Incidental to the condition of national independence and sovereignty, the rights of interior navigation of...
Էջ 10 - SIR: I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me on the 24th of this month.
Էջ 3 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Էջ 14 - America, which lies from the northern stream of a river commonly called the Savannah, all along the sea coast to the southward, unto the most southern stream of a certain other great water or river called the Alatamaha, and westward from the heads of the said rivers respectively in direct lines to the South seas...
Էջ 5 - Nature, and has been for many years a subject of serious deliberation in Congress. A plan has for several Sessions been before them for establishing a Territorial Government on the borders of the Columbia River. It will undoubtedly be resumed at their next Session, and even if then again postponed there cannot be a doubt that, in the course of a very few years, it must be carried into effect.
Էջ 10 - I asserted, that a nation discovering a country by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country as was described by the course of such principal river and its tributary streams...