 | Fremont Rider, Frederic Taber Cooper - Washington (D.C.) - 1924 - 620 pages
...Dec. 23d, 1788, offered to Congrecs "any district (not exceeding ten miles square) which congress may fix upon and accept for the seat of Government of the United States." This precipitated, in 1789, a stormy debate in Congress. The North and the South each desired... | |
 | John Beaver Mertie - Geology - 1930 - 676 pages
...Wednesday of March next, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required on the behalf of this State to cede to the Congress of the United States any district in this State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon and accept for the seat... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1935 - 1754 pages
...first Wednesday of March next, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required on behalf of this State to cede to the Congress of the United States any district in this State, not exceeding 10 miles square, which the Congress may fix upon and accept for the seat... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1935 - 232 pages
...therefore, respectfully recommends that, in the event this report is approved both by the Congress of the United States, and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the surveying of the said boundary line and the marking of same by suitable monuments be... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary - 1936 - 232 pages
...therefore, respectfully recommends that, in the event this report is approved both by the Congress of the United States, and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the surveying of the said boundary line and the marking of same by suitable monuments be... | |
 | Geology - 1966 - 430 pages
...Wednesday of March next, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required on the behalf of this State to cede to the Congress of the United States any district In this State, not exceeding ten miles square, which the Congress may fix upon and accept for the seat... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 174 pages
...Wednesday of March next, be and they are hereby authorized and required, on the behalf of this state, to cede to the congress of the United States, any district in this state, not exceeding ten miles square, which the congress may fix upon and accept for the seat... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1972 - 292 pages
...federal government "...any district of this state, not exceeding ten miles square, which Congress may fix upon and accept for the seat of government of the United States." (1 Kilty's Laws of Maryland, Ch. 2,) Congress, on July 16, 1790, by an Act entitled "An Act... | |
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State, in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New York on the first Wednesday of March then next ensuing, should be, and they were thereby authorized and required, on the behalf of the said State,... 
