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A brief and lucid treatise on the Federal Constitution, and the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate Governments which preceded it. 50 84 English Political Orations from Wentworth to Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by WILLIAM Clarke. 12 mo. xvi+312 pp. Cloth, uncut, price, 40 cents; red roan, $1.25; half morc., g. t..1 50 Great speeches on great themes by famous English statesmen. The selection covers a period from 1576 to 1831. For sale by all booksellers, or sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of the price. A. LOVELL & CO., PUBLISHERS, 521 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 3 East 14th Street, New York. In No. 16 of the Leaflets are printed the charters and grants upon which rest the original claims of the various Continental Colonies which later constituted the Union. Most of those grants had been annulled, or the proprietary rights acquired by the Crown. When the Revolution was impending, the boundaries between colonies had been for the most part adjusted; and by the Proclamation of 1763 (American History Leaflet No. 5, p. 14) no governors were to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest; or upon any lands whatever, which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, as aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them." The Revolution brought about several important changes in the territorial conditions of the former Colonies. So soon as the English author. ity was extinguished, the States which had once had charters asserted that the territory embraced by such charters reverted to them. In the second place, the restriction to land east of the Appalachian water-shed and outside Indian tracts was held to have no more force. In the third place, several communities, notably Vermont, asserted that they were no longer included within the State of which they had been a part while it I was still a colony. And in 1778 Virginia troops conquered the Northwest region, then a part of the English Province of Quebec. The result was confusion and clashing of interests. Western New York and Northern Pennsylvania were claimed by Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively; New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and Virginia all claimed the same parcel of territory north of the Ohio River; and the States with strictly defined boundaries, especially Maryland, protested against the appropriation by individual States of lands gained by the common effort of the Revolutionary War. The controversy delayed the ratification of the Articles of Confederation (Leaflet No. 20) and was finally adjusted by a series of agreements between the competing States, and a series of cessions to the Union, not completed till 1802. Most of the documents in this important episode are to be found in the Journals of Congress and the United States Statutes at Large; reprints in: Hickey, Constitution of the United States; Thomas Donaldson, The Public Domain; Bioren and Duane, Land Laws of the United States; American State Papers, Public Lands. Accounts of the controversy are H. B. Adams, Maryland's Influence upon the Land Cessions to the United States; (Johns Hopkins University Studies, III., No. 1); B. A. Hinsdale, The Old Northwest; F. J. Turner in American Historical Review, I., 70,251; G. T. Curtis, History of the Constitution, I., 291—301, (Constitutional History, Ch. v.); George Bancroft, History of the Constitution, I., 127, 225, II. 100 (History of the United States, last revision, VI., 96, 165, 229); J. B. McMaster, History of the United States, I., III.; J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, SS227, 228. Bibliography of the subject may be found in Channing and Hart, Guide to the Study of American History, § 150; Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, VII., 520—534; J. J. Lalor, Cyclopædia of Political Science, III., 920. Historical maps may be found in H. C. Lodge, North American Colonies, front; Albert B. Hart, Epoch Maps, Nos. 5, 6, 9, (Formation of the Union, Nos. 2-4); Labberton, Historical Atlas No. Ixvi; Gardiner, School Atlas, plate 48; W. M. Sloane, French War and Revolution (end); T. MacCoun, Historical Geography; Edward Channing, The United States, 1765-1865; Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, vii, 520 et seq. JUNE, 1776. VIRGINIA CLAIM ASSERTED. The western and northern extent of Virginia shall in all other respects stand as fixed by the charter of king James the first, in the year one thousand six hundred and nine, and by the publick treaty of peace between the courts of Great Britain and France in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty three; unless, by act of legislature, one or more territories shall hereafter be laid off, and governments established westward of the Allegheny mountains.-Hening, Statutes, IX, 118. |