 ... the frontiers of the United States, the property of which was not vested in, or granted to, individuals at the commencement of the present war: — That the same hath been, or may be, gained from the King of Great Britain, or the native Indians, by...  Annual Report - The Secretary of the Interior - Page 10by United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1910Full view - About this book
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1911 - 646 pages
...sole custodian, with the right of sale or other disposition, of all such territory as in the juUgment of Congress shall be deemed best, it being understood...Florida purchase of 42,000,000 acres, at a cost of about $6,500,000, was made in 1819. The Oregon country, aggregating 181,000,000 acres, was acquired by discovery... | |
 | Indiana - 1916 - 922 pages
...been won from Great Britain and the Indians "by the blood and treasure of all," it ought, therefore, "to be a common estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to the United States," and should "be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient, and independent governments . . ."... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1925 - 464 pages
...taken within Congress and not within the state legislatures. " Ibid., XI, 640. One aye, 11 noes. mon estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to the United States." On the other hand, the Delaware legislature proposed that the courts of that state be given the right... | |
 | Claudia L. Bushman, Harold Bell Hancock, Elizabeth Moyne Homsey - Political Science - 1988 - 1040 pages
...King of Great-Britain, or the native Indians, by the Blood and Treasure of all, and ought therefore to be a Common Estate, to be granted out on Terms beneficial to the United States. — We are the more strongly impressed with these Sentiments, because well assured, that every Idea... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Civil rights - 2004 - 762 pages
...King of Great Britain, or the native Indians, by the blood and treasure of all, and ought therefore to be a common estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to the United States." The State of Virginia was perhaps foremost in the assertion of such claims, and opened a land-office... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 790 pages
...King of Great Britain, or the native Indians, by the blood and treasure of all, and ought therefore to be a common estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to the United States. Upon which Congress passed the following resolution on the said 23d February, 1779, fight States voting... | |
 | Charles Kettleborough - Indiana - 1916 - 790 pages
...been won from Great Britain and the Indians "by the blood and treasure of all," it ought, therefore, "to be a common estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to the United States," and should "be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient, and independent governments . . ."... | |
 | Ohio - 1900 - 588 pages
...king of Great Britain, or the native Indians, by the blood and treasure of all, and ought, therefore, to be a common estate, to be granted out on terms beneficial to all the United States, and that they should use their utmost endeavors that an article to that effect... | |
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