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Страница 149 - Provided always, and the cession and jurisdiction aforesaid are granted upon the express condition that this Commonwealth shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said tracts of land, so far as that all civil and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of this Commonwealth, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without the said tracts of land
Страница 103 - march stilly past. How solemn! the river a trailing pall, Which takes but never again gives back; And moonless and starless the heaven's arch'd wall; Responding an equal black! Oh, tireless waters! like life's quick dream, Onward and onward
Страница 84 - rights she possessed in the property about to be sold, the deal could not be consummated without her. Trembling with rage at this unexpected and, as he believed, premeditated disappointment, Mr. Peters, after soundly berating Monsieur de Marigny for his breach of agreement, finally exclaimed: "I shall live, by God, to see the day when rank grass shall choke up the gutters of your old 'faubourg.
Страница 87 - efforts. Our Ship of State—the Constitution—will be rescued. The immortal spirit of Washington will smile on us and our country will be happy." In 1846, the war with Mexico broke out, Texas having been admitted in the American Union during the preceding year. In 1848, the victorious General Zachary Taylor, the hero of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Buena Vista,
Страница 149 - That the jurisdiction and control over the sites of the following works of fortification be, and the same hereby are, granted and ceded to the United States for military purposes, viz: * * over Fort Wood at the Chef Menteur Pass, and over all the land within
Страница 100 - disappointed. In poetry and romance, these rivers are talked of as though they were cleanly streams; but it is astonishing what a difference is made by the simple fact that they are always
Страница 103 - hurrying— Like Death in this midnight hour you seem, Life in your chill drops speedily burying! In
Страница 99 - the steamer St. Cloud, a freight and packet boat, lying at the wharf there with the steam all up and ultimately bound for New Orleans.
Страница 99 - time, as the paper wasn't to be out in three or four weeks. I enjoyed my journey and Louisiana venture very much.
Страница 149 - may affect the real or personal property of the United States within the ceded territory.