 ... exclusive legislation of Congress was to secure the entire independence of the General Government from' undue State influence and to enable it to discharge without danger of interruption or infringement of its authority the high functions for which...  Easy Introduction to ... Geography - Página 68por Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1830Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - 1823 - 532 páginas
...district of Columbia is a tract of country 10 miles square, on both sides of Potomac River, situated 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia, in 1890; and was accepted by Congress, and in 1800 became the seat of the general government. It is... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 886 páginas
...Pop. 823. Columbia, District of, a tract of country, 10 miles square, on both sides of Potomac river, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia in 1790, and in 1 800, became the seat of the General Government. It is under the immediate government... | |
 | 1823 - 322 páginas
...GEORGETOWN. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a tract of country 1O miles square, on both sides of Potomac river, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia in 1790, and, in 18OO, became the seat of the General Government. It is under the immediate government... | |
 | Nathaniel Gilbert Huntington - 1835 - 318 páginas
...sq., or 100 sq. ms.— Pop. 40,000—400 per sq. m. The District of Columbia lies on both sides of the Potomac, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia, in 1790, but the first session of Congress here, was held in 1800. The district is under the immediate... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 páginas
...COLUMBIA. THE District of Columbia is a tract of country 10 miles square, on both «ides of Potomac river, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia in 1790, and in 1800 became the seat of the general government. It is under the immediate government... | |
 | John Thomson - 1851 - 1092 páginas
...Aplington. COLOMBIA, DISTBICT OF, a tract of country, 10 miles square, on both sides of Potomac river, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States, by Maryland and Virginia, in 1790, and in 1800 became the seat of the general government. It is under the immediate government... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1871 - 670 páginas
...its authority, the high functions for which it was created by the people. For this important purpose people, is more likely to be abused tb:in tiie power to regulat it ceitainly never could have been contemplated, as one of the objects to be attained by placing it... | |
 | 1883 - 556 páginas
...was originally ten miles square, or one hundred square miles, the Potomac river passing through it. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia, and is officially known as the District of Columbia. The Virginia portion, however, having been re-ceded,... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 858 páginas
...its authority the high functions for which it was created by the people. For this important purpose it was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia, and it certainly never could have been contemplated as one of the objects to be attained by placing it... | |
 | 1905 - 458 páginas
...lying on both sides of the Potomac, about . J 1Soo.] ELECTION OF JEFFERSON. 231 one hundred and twenty miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States by Maryland and Virginia in 1790, for the purpose of making it the capital of the UnionIn 1846, that part lying on the right... | |
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