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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
ited States each alternate section. It was not an absolute grant of land in fee, for, under certain restrictions, the States had a right to sell the awards, and from the proceeds they were to repay the government. On the same day (March, 1827) there was granted to Indiana a certain strip of land formerly held by the Pottawattomie Indians, the proceeds of the sale thereof to be applied to building a road front Lake Michigan, via Indianapolis, to some convenient point on the Ohio River. March 3, 1827, a grant was made to Ohio of two sections of land along the entire line of a road to be constructed from Sandusky to Columbus. May 23, 1828, a grant of 400,000 acres of the relinquished lands in certain counties in Alabama was made in aid of the improvement of the Tennessee and other rivers in that State. In this grant was the first provision for indemnity in case the grant was not full by reason of prior sales or disposals by the government. Similar grants were made from time to ti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
1879, till March 3, 1879. Three men of the same family— James A. Bayard, his son of the same name, and his grandson, Thomas F. Bayard—represented Delaware, the first from January, 1805, till March, 1813; the second from April, 1867, till March, 1869, and the third from March, 1869, till March, 1885. Three other men of the same family name also represented Delaware in the Senate—Joshua Clayton, from Jan. 19, 1798, till his death the following July; Thomas Clayton, from Jan. 8, 1824, till March 3, 1827, and again from Jan. 9, 1837, till March 3, 1847; John M. Clayton, from March 4, 1845, till Feb. 23, 1849, and again from March 4, 1853, till his death, Nov. 9, 1856. Three men named Bell, two of them brothers, the third a son of one of them, represented New Hampshire in the Senate—Samuel Bell, from March 4, 1823, till March 4, 1835; his son, James Bell, from July 30, 1855, till May 26, 1859, and Charles Henry Bell from March 13, 1879, till June 17, 1879. At one time during the Clevela
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ence......July 4, 1826 Abduction of William Morgan from Canandaigua, N. Y.......Sept. 12, 1826 [Gave rise to a political party—the anti-Masonic—that became national in importance, though short-lived.] Convention with Great Britain concerning indemnities for the War of 1812-14......Nov. 13, 1826 Second session convenes......Dec. 4, 1826 Congress makes an appropriation for the payment of Revolutionary and other pensions......Jan. 29, 1827 Nineteenth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1827 General Gaines ordered into the Creek Indian country......1827 Protectionists hold a convention at Harrisburg, Pa., and demand a higher tariff......July 30, 1827 United States and Great Britain by treaty agree to extend or renew the commercial agreements of 1818, and the Oregon boundary to continue indefinitely......Aug. 6, 1827 First railroad in the United States, running from Quincy, Mass., to the Neponset River, 3 miles, commenced 1826; completed (operated by horse-power).