The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 1S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1922 - Detroit (Mich.) |
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Abbott acres appointed assembly British building Cadillac Campus Martius Canada Canadian Cass CHAPTER chimney citizens claim Clair clerk commandant at Detroit common pleas Congress council court of common Dejean Detroit River district early election Elijah Brush English established farm feet French garrison George governor and judges Governor Haldimand granted Henry Huron Indiana Territory Indians inhabitants James Jefferson Avenue John Askin Joseph July jury justice Lake land letter lots Macomb marriage McDougall Michigan Michigan Territory miles military Montreal Niagara Northwest Territory October Ohio ordinance passed peace persons petition Peyster possession present President probate province quarter sessions Quebec records September settlement Sieur Smith soldiers Solomon Sibley Street tion Tonty Town of Detroit tract trade treaty tribes trustees United Upper Canada village Visger vote Wayne County William William Macomb Woodward Avenue
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Page 464 - the Constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska, as elsewhere within the United States, except the eighth section of the Act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union...
Page 66 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 616 - Wayne, the board of county auditors, shall have the exclusive power to prescribe and fix the compensation for all services rendered for, and to a-djust all claims against, their respective counties; and the sum so fixed or defined shall be subject to no appeal.
Page 66 - States, shall be of any validity, in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty, or convention, entered into pursuant to the constitution...
Page 658 - ... to take and receive from any individual or corporation, on deposit for safe keeping and storage...
Page 762 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 626 - ... tenements shall revert to the person or his heirs, who granted them to the corporation : for the law doth annex a condition to every such grant, that if the corporation be dissolved, the grantor shall have the lands again, because the cause of the grant faileth...
Page 453 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 149 - I am half dead with perpetual anxiety, and shall not be at ease till I see how the great men receive me. If this is not as good a peace as was expected, I am confident it is the best that could have been made.
Page 152 - States, otherwise than in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.