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... Duty to make that should any bad Consequences result we may stand fully acquitted , having declared our Opinion that we shall not be able to provide for them with that Plenty or guard them in that Security which the Case requires ...
... Duty to make that should any bad Consequences result we may stand fully acquitted , having declared our Opinion that we shall not be able to provide for them with that Plenty or guard them in that Security which the Case requires ...
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... Duty with all Despatch so as to supply the Garrison at Fort Pitt & such Troops as may be drawn forth under the Authority of Council for the Defence of the Frontiers . - The amount of your yearly Purchases is limited to 816 Barrels Flour ...
... Duty with all Despatch so as to supply the Garrison at Fort Pitt & such Troops as may be drawn forth under the Authority of Council for the Defence of the Frontiers . - The amount of your yearly Purchases is limited to 816 Barrels Flour ...
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... duty to have done , when I wrote him on ye 8th of September * to this purpose . But before I enter further on this subject , I must beg leave to observe to you Sir , that it appears somewhat extraordinary , you should express yourself ...
... duty to have done , when I wrote him on ye 8th of September * to this purpose . But before I enter further on this subject , I must beg leave to observe to you Sir , that it appears somewhat extraordinary , you should express yourself ...
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... Duty , they have not a Blanket among them all , I know it is not in the power of Council to provide for them at present but I hope they will as soon as posable . There is no appeerance of Cumberland Militia Coming to this County as yet ...
... Duty , they have not a Blanket among them all , I know it is not in the power of Council to provide for them at present but I hope they will as soon as posable . There is no appeerance of Cumberland Militia Coming to this County as yet ...
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... duty towards the south- ward with all convenient speed , and as a part of the men have received the gratuity of £ 9 allowed by a Resolution of Assembly and the greater part have not , it is more than probable there will be a great ...
... duty towards the south- ward with all convenient speed , and as a part of the men have received the gratuity of £ 9 allowed by a Resolution of Assembly and the greater part have not , it is more than probable there will be a great ...
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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.