Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and Their Several States: With a Brief Record of Important Changes in Their Territory and GovernmentU.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - 265 páginas |
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... described at length in 148 U. S. 520–522 . See also an excellent review of this question in the opinion , dated June 17 , 1929 , rendered by the attorney general of Texas to a joint legislative committee of that State , regarding the ...
... described at length in 148 U. S. 520–522 . See also an excellent review of this question in the opinion , dated June 17 , 1929 , rendered by the attorney general of Texas to a joint legislative committee of that State , regarding the ...
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... described as following the middle of a river intersects an island , it is the usual policy to give the entire island to the State or Government to which the greater part would fall . This rule was followed by the commission acting under ...
... described as following the middle of a river intersects an island , it is the usual policy to give the entire island to the State or Government to which the greater part would fall . This rule was followed by the commission acting under ...
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... described by statute or treaty as a river boundary later runs across dry land , where it remains fixed unless the river returns to its former channel and changes it by slow action . There are many illustrations of this rule in the ...
... described by statute or treaty as a river boundary later runs across dry land , where it remains fixed unless the river returns to its former channel and changes it by slow action . There are many illustrations of this rule in the ...
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... described ; that question shall be referred to the final decision of commissions to be appointed in the following manner , viz , * Here follow provisions that His Majesty and the President of the United States should each appoint a ...
... described ; that question shall be referred to the final decision of commissions to be appointed in the following manner , viz , * Here follow provisions that His Majesty and the President of the United States should each appoint a ...
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... described line ( which is more clearly indicated on a series of maps accompanying this report , exhibiting cor- rect surveys and delineations of all the rivers , lakes , water communications , 42 Malloy , W. M. , op . cit . , vol . 1 ...
... described line ( which is more clearly indicated on a series of maps accompanying this report , exhibiting cor- rect surveys and delineations of all the rivers , lakes , water communications , 42 Malloy , W. M. , op . cit . , vol . 1 ...
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49th parallel aforesaid appointed bank boundary line ceded cession chains charter claimed Coast and Geodetic Colorado commissioners Cong Congress Connecticut Connecticut River County Dakota degree of longitude degree of north Delaware due north due west east eastern enabling act feet Florida Geodetic Survey Georgia grant Hampshire Indian Indiana Territory intersection Jersey jurisdiction Lake Lake Michigan Land Office latitude latitude 36 latitude 42 Legislature line was run longitude longitude west Louisiana Louisiana Purchase main channel Maryland Massachusetts meridian Mexico Michigan middle Mississippi River Missouri River Mountains mouth north boundary North Carolina north latitude northern boundary northwest corner Ocean Ohio parallel of latitude Pennsylvania Red River resurvey Rhode Island shore southern square miles Stat stone Supreme Court surveyed and marked Tennessee Tennessee River Territory Texas thence due thence north thereof treaty United Virginia west boundary western boundary York
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Página 186 - State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami Bay, after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami River as aforesaid, thence northeast to the territorial line, and, by the said territorial line, to the Pennsylvania line.
Página 36 - But, if the source of the Arkansas river shall be found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude 42, and thence, along the said parallel, to the South Sea...
Página 51 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of said canal...
Página 6 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Página 164 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Página 48 - A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north latitude, and through the middle of the navigable channel of Bachi, from the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) to the one hundred and twenty-seventh (127th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich...
Página 115 - Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost...
Página 118 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Página 37 - Ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan Pantoja, second...
Página 42 - Behring's straits on the parallel of sixty-five degrees thirty minutes north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the islands of Krusenstern, or Ignalook, and the island of Ratmanpff, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north, without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean. The same western limit, beginning at the same initial...