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... Servant . EZEK . CORNELL . His Excellency Jos . Reed , Esqr . , President of the state Pensyl- vania . War office . MONS . HOLKER TO PRES . REED , 1781 . Philadelphia , y 26th March , 1781 . Sir , In consequence of your letter of ye ...
... Servant . EZEK . CORNELL . His Excellency Jos . Reed , Esqr . , President of the state Pensyl- vania . War office . MONS . HOLKER TO PRES . REED , 1781 . Philadelphia , y 26th March , 1781 . Sir , In consequence of your letter of ye ...
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... servant of the Congress of the United States : I therefore refused all concern whatever in the Sloop Active , least I might involve or derogate from my public char- acter . These facts I presume , are proved by the papers in possession ...
... servant of the Congress of the United States : I therefore refused all concern whatever in the Sloop Active , least I might involve or derogate from my public char- acter . These facts I presume , are proved by the papers in possession ...
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... Servant , HOLKER . His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esq " , Prest of the State of Pensil vania , & y Supreme Executive Council . GEN . ST . CLAIR TO PRES . REED , 1781 . To His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esquire , President , and the ...
... Servant , HOLKER . His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esq " , Prest of the State of Pensil vania , & y Supreme Executive Council . GEN . ST . CLAIR TO PRES . REED , 1781 . To His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esquire , President , and the ...
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... Servant , To Daniel Levan Esquire . Sir , TY . MATLACK , Secy . COUNCIL TO JOHN HAZELWOOD , 1781 . Application has been made to Council for permission to load on board the Hermion , 1200 barr . of Flour , & 500 barrels of Biscuit . The ...
... Servant , To Daniel Levan Esquire . Sir , TY . MATLACK , Secy . COUNCIL TO JOHN HAZELWOOD , 1781 . Application has been made to Council for permission to load on board the Hermion , 1200 barr . of Flour , & 500 barrels of Biscuit . The ...
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... servant , Philadelphia , March 29th , 1781 . Directed , His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esquire . THO . M'KEAN . Sir , GEORGE SMITH TO PRES . REED , 1781 . Assembly Room , March ye 30th , 1781 . Mr. Barkley Cauld me out a few minuets a Go ...
... servant , Philadelphia , March 29th , 1781 . Directed , His Excellency Joseph Reed , Esquire . THO . M'KEAN . Sir , GEORGE SMITH TO PRES . REED , 1781 . Assembly Room , March ye 30th , 1781 . Mr. Barkley Cauld me out a few minuets a Go ...
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Page 681 - Congress, to the legislative or executive authority of the other State in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question...
Page 569 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Page 472 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of record, or any other place whatsoever...
Page 169 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the Union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them ; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Page 169 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
Page 700 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 700 - Castle town, unto the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, if the said river doth extend so far northward, but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend...
Page 703 - Breadth; and in Length, •and Longitude, of and within all the Breadth afore'said, throughout the main Lands there, from the 'Atlantic and western Sea and Ocean on the East • Part, to the South Sea on the West Part...
Page 703 - Provided always, that the said islands, or any of the premises herein before mentioned, and, by these presents, intended and meant to be granted, be not actually possessed, or inhabited by any other christian prince or state...
Page 537 - But if the States will not impose, or do not collect and apply, taxes for support of the war, the sooner we make terms the better ; the longer we continue a feeble and ineffectual war, the greater will be our distress at the hour of submission.