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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
Internal improvements. Millions of acres of the public lands of the United States have been granted to aid in the construction of roads, canals, and railways; and also for educational and other purposes. The first acts of Congress for the purpose of internal improvements were two for the new State of Ohio, which became laws on April 30, 1802, and March 3, 1803, respectively. Previous to that there had been donations of land in favor Table showing interest laws and statutes of limitations. States and Territories.Interest Laws. Statutes of Limitations.States and Territories.Interest Laws.Statutes of Limitations. Legal RateRate Allowed by Contract.Judgments, Years.Notes, Years.Open Accounts, Years.Legal RateRate Allowed by Contract.Judgments, Years.Notes, Years.Open Accounts, Years. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. Alabama 8 8 20 6 Under seal, 10 years. 3 Nebraska 7 10 5 Becomes dormant, but may be revived.5 4 Arkansas 6 10 10 5 3 Nevada 7 Any rate. 6 6 4 Arizona
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
on and to bring the President and the government into contempt ; confined four months in Vergennes jail; fine of $1,000 paid by friends, and Lyon released......Feb. 9, 1799 J. T. Callender, for libel of President Adams in a pamphlet, The Prospect before us; tried at Richmond, Va., fined $200 and sentenced to nine months imprisonment......June 6, 1800 Thomas Daniel, for opening letters of a foreign minister......1800 Judge John Pickering impeached before the United States Senate, March 3, 1803, for malfeasance in the New Hampshire district court in October and November, 1802, in restoring ship Eliza, seized for smuggling, to its owners; Judge Pickering, though doubtless insane, is convicted and removed from office......March 4, 1804 Judge Samuel Chase impeached before the United States Senate, acquitted......1805 Thomas O. Selfridge tried for murder of Charles Austin on the public exchange in Boston......Aug. 4, 1806 Aaron Burr, for treason, Virginia; acquitted......M
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
95 restored......April 14, 1802 Georgia cedes her western territory to the United States......April 24, 1802 Library of Congress catalogued, containing 964 volumes and 9 maps......April, 1802 First session adjourns......May 3, 1802 Washington incorporated as a city......May, 1802 Ohio adopts a State constitution......Nov. 29, 1802 Second session convenes......Dec. 6, 1802 Ohio admitted as a. State (the seventeenth)......Feb. 19, 1803 Seventh Congress adjourns......March 3, 1803 Treaty with France: the United States purchases Louisiana for $15,000,000......April 30, 1803 Eighth Congress, first session, convenes......Oct. 17, 1803 Speaker of the House, Nathaniel Macon, North Carolina. Senate ratifies the treaty with France by vote of 24 to 7......Oct. 20, 1803 President authorized by Congress to take possession of Louisiana......Oct. 30, 1803 Frigate Philadelphia, forty-four guns, Captain Bainbridge, pursuing Tripolitan ship-of-war, strikes a ro