Boundaries of the United States and the Several States: With Miscellaneous Geographic Information Concerning Areas, Altitudes, and Geographic CentersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 191 страница |
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... Distances along the boundaries of the United States Alabama Tennessee Additions to the territory of the United States Louisiana Purchase Florida Purchase Texas accession First Mexican cession Gadsden Purchase Alaska Purchase Hawaiian ...
... Distances along the boundaries of the United States Alabama Tennessee Additions to the territory of the United States Louisiana Purchase Florida Purchase Texas accession First Mexican cession Gadsden Purchase Alaska Purchase Hawaiian ...
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... distance measurements . This accuracy is due to better instruments and higher re- quirements . The early surveyor had to endure many hardships . Sometimes it is surprising that his work was as good as it was . It is legally well ...
... distance measurements . This accuracy is due to better instruments and higher re- quirements . The early surveyor had to endure many hardships . Sometimes it is surprising that his work was as good as it was . It is legally well ...
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... Distances are given in miles and feet and sometimes in yards or chains . A chain is 66 feet , and there are 100 links in a chain . Some old surveys are recorded in perches , which are a fourth of a chain , equivalent to a rod . Because ...
... Distances are given in miles and feet and sometimes in yards or chains . A chain is 66 feet , and there are 100 links in a chain . Some old surveys are recorded in perches , which are a fourth of a chain , equivalent to a rod . Because ...
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... distance . The top and the four sides of each monument for a distance of 4 feet from the top are to be cut smooth at right angles with each other and finished with 6 - cut work . The tapering portion to be pointed to a smooth even ...
... distance . The top and the four sides of each monument for a distance of 4 feet from the top are to be cut smooth at right angles with each other and finished with 6 - cut work . The tapering portion to be pointed to a smooth even ...
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... distance from its site.22 This monument was recovered by the commission of 1912 and reset in concrete . It is now known as boundary 22 See U.S. Cong . ( 1877 , p . 80-82 ) , Internat . Joint Comm . , United States and Canada ( 1917 , p ...
... distance from its site.22 This monument was recovered by the commission of 1912 and reset in concrete . It is now known as boundary 22 See U.S. Cong . ( 1877 , p . 80-82 ) , Internat . Joint Comm . , United States and Canada ( 1917 , p ...
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49th parallel aforesaid appointed approved Arkansas bank bound boundary line Britain ceded cession charter claimed Colorado commission commissioners Congress Connecticut Connecticut River County Dakota defined degree of north Delaware due north due west east eastern enabling act established extending feet Florida Geodetic Georgia Government grant Gulf of Mexico Hampshire included Indian Indiana Territory intersection Jersey jurisdiction Lake Michigan Land Office latitude Legislature line was run longitude Louisiana main channel Maryland Massachusetts meridian middle Mississippi River Missouri River Mountains mouth north boundary North Carolina north latitude northeast northern boundary northwest corner Ocean Ohio parallel of latitude Pennsylvania Red River resurvey Rhode Island river St shore southern southwest square miles Stat stone straight line surveyed and marked Tennessee Territory Texas thence due thence north thereof tion treaty U.S. Cong U.S. Supreme Court United Virginia Washington western boundary York
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Страница 27 - River; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea.
Страница 113 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Страница 38 - 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...
Страница 12 - 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.
Страница 105 - 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.
Страница 136 - States, in all respects whatever; and the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri where the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the eastern boundary of.
Страница 28 - Rio Bravo del Norte, or Opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico...
Страница 14 - ... a line drawn from the said point due north or south as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...
Страница 29 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich.) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Страница 28 - Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific 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...