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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
years from last item. Utah 8 Any rate. 8 6 4 Maryland 6 6 12 33 Vermont 6 6 8 6 6 Six years from last item. Massachusetts 6 Any rate. 20 6 6 Virginia 6 6 20 5 Under seal, 10 years.2 Store accounts; other accounts, 3 years. Michigan 5 7 6 Under seal, 10 years. 6 6 Six years from last item. Washington 7 12 6 6 3 Minnesota 6 10 10 6 6 West Virginia 6 6 10 10 3 Mississippi 6 10 7 63 Wisconsin 6 10 20 （i) Is a lien on real estate for only 10 years.6 6 Missouri 6 8 10 105 Wyoming 812 5 （k) And indefinitely by having execution issue every 5 years.5 8 Montana 10 Any rate. 10 （b) In courts not of record, 5 years. 83 of various deserving persons. The grants to the inhabitants of Ohio were for the purpose of laying out public roads leading to the Ohio River. Other grants were made from time to time for improvements in the Northwest until 1824, when (May 26) Congress authorized the State of Indiana to construct a canal, giving the right of way, with 90 feet of<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal revenue. (search)
Internal revenue. The following table shows the total collections of internal revenue in the United States in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, by States and Territories: States and Territories.Aggregate Collections. Alabama $539,015.22 Arkansas 260,418.99 California and Nevada 4,517,498.34 Colorado and Wyoming 1,313,596.46 Connecticut and Rhode Island 3,040,783.28 Florida 725,142.72 Georgia 917,892.03 Hawaii 7,454.30 Illinois 52,237,729.32 Indiana 23,229,623.81 Iowa 1,874,803.87 Kansas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma 1,010,718.79 Kentucky 24,472,382.93 Louisiana and Mississippi 2,443,558.37 Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and two Virginia districts 9,002,373.14 Massachusetts 7,953,569.58 Michigan 4,925,024.48 Minnesota 2,814,113.23 Missouri 16,694,171.67 Montana, Idaho, and Utah 718,365.33 Nebraska, and North and South Dakota 3,383,918.23 New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont 1,309,361.06 New Jersey 8,828,895.04 New Mexico and Arizona 131,25
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irrigation, (search)
the Rocky Mountains, a distance of 250 miles, and having an extent of about 700 miles from Manitoba on the north to Texas on the south. 2. A region beginning at the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains and extending westward to the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. It comprises an immense territory, Irrigation by pipe system. Irrigation by artesian-well system. which includes the park system of the Rockies, culminating in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and northeast Arizona. The section contains many mountain systems, the Great Basin of Salt Lake, the great cañon system and plateau of the Colorado, the meadow-lands of Nevada, the northwest Columbia Basin, and the National Park. 3. A region including about onefourth of the territory of California, and divided into two parts —the foothills of the Sierras and the broad, level valley lying between the Sierras and the Coast Range. In 1900 these divisions taken as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jenkins, John 1751-1827 (search)
Jenkins, John 1751-1827 Military officer; born in New London, Conn., Nov. 27, 1751; served throughout the Revolutionary War as a lieutenant; and during the Wyoming massacre commanded Forty Fort. He died in Wyoming, Pa., March 19, 1827.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jews. (search)
Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The following tentative estimate by States is given, being based, with a few modifications, on the table of David Sulzberger: Alabama6,000 Arizona2,000 Arkansas4,000 California35,000 Colorado10,500 Connecticut6,000 North and South Dakota3,500 Delaware3,000 District of Columbia3,500 Florida2,500 （Continued from preceding page.) Georgia7,000 Idaho2,000 Illinois95,000 Indiana25,000 Iowa5,000 Kansas3,500 Kentucky12,000 Louisiana20,000 Maine5,000 Maryland35,000 Massachusetts20,000 Michigan9,000 Mississippi5,000 Missouri35,000 Montana2,500 Nebraska2,000 Nevada2,500 New Hampshire1,000 New Jersey25,000 New Mexico2,000 New York400,000 North Carolina12,000 Ohio50,000 Oregon6,000 Pennsylvania95,000 Rhode Island3,500 South Carolina8,000 Tennessee5,000 Texas15,000 Utah5,000 Vermont1,000 Virginia18,000 Washington2,800 West Virginia6,000 Wisconsin10,000 Wyoming1,000 ——–—— Total1,043,800 Jews
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Judiciary of the United States. (search)
consists of the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; 2d, Connecticut, New York, and Vermont; 3d, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; 4th, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; 5th, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; 6th, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee; 7th, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin; 8th, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming; 9th, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Washington. Each judge of the Supreme Court is allotted a circuit, and is required to attend that circuit at least one term every two years. Salary of chief-justice, $10,500; each justice, $10,000 a year. Circuit courts, established and organized by Congress. Each of the circuits has allotted to it one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and has a local judge appointed, termed circuit judge. There are twenty-five circuit judges, all
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Labor, industrial (search)
or municipality. In cases of extraordinary emergency, overtime may be worked for extra pay. West Virginia. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the State. Wisconsin. In all engagements to labor in any manufacturing or mechanical business, where there is no express contract to the contrary, a day's work shall consist of eight hours; but the law does not apply to contracts for labor by the week, month, or year. In all manufactories, workshops, or other places used for mechanical or manufacturing purposes, the time of labor of children under the age of eighteen, and of women employed therein, shall not exceed eight hours in the day. Wyoming. Eight hours actual work constitute a legal day's work in all mines and public works. United States. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the United States.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Militia, United States (search)
5,176 300,000 11,200 Washington National Guard of Washington 11 73 54 669 1,877 96,000 Unknown. West VirginiaWest Virginia National Guard20 20 945 8,359 130,000 16,700 Wisconsin Wisconsin National Guard 8 67 69 2,692 3,122 400,000 100,000 Wyoming Wyoming National Guard348 1,078 180,000 5,000 Grand aggregates 911 4,576 5,459 96,899 199,694 11,448,300 $3,282,407 The total organized force is 105,845. militia in such numbers as he might deem necessary. The militia of the States and Wyoming National Guard348 1,078 180,000 5,000 Grand aggregates 911 4,576 5,459 96,899 199,694 11,448,300 $3,282,407 The total organized force is 105,845. militia in such numbers as he might deem necessary. The militia of the States and Territories constitute primarily an armed local constabulary that may be called out by the governor as commander-in-chief on the request of a sheriff or other local authority to aid in the enforcement of law, preserve order, etc. In the Civil War as well as that against Spain the bulk of the volunteer army of the United States was drawn from the militia of the States, and in their more extended service these soldiers lose for the time being their State organization and become subject wholly to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Montana, State of (search)
Montana, State of Is bounded on the north by British Columbia and the Northwest Territory; on the east by North and South Dakota; on the south by Wyoming and Idaho; and on the west by Idaho; area, 146,080 square miles; capital, Helena; admitted to the Union Nov. 8, 1889. State seal of Montana. By act of Congress in May, 1864, Montana. was taken from the eastern portion of Idaho and organized as a separate Territory. The State is exceedingly rich in mineral productions, especially gold, silver, copper, lead, and coal. There are also very large and excellent tracts of grazing land. The population in 1890 was 132,159; in 1900, 243,329. See United States, Montana, in vol. IX. Territorial governors. Sydney Edgertonterm beginsJune 22, 1864 Thos. Francis Meagheracting1865 Green Clay Smithterm beginsJuly 13, 1866 James M. Ashleyterm beginsApril 9, 1869 Benjamin F. Pottsterm beginsJuly 13, 1870 John Schuyler Crosbyterm begins1883 B. Platt Carpenterterm begins1884 Samue
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parks in the United States. (search)
Parks in the United States. The development of the park system, national, state, and civic, in the United States, is recent, though Boston had its Common, part of a purchase for a cow pasture in 1634, and since 1878 protected from encroachment by law. Interest in public parks was created by the papers of A. J. Downing in 1849, and led to the establishment of Central Park (862 acres) in the city of New York in 1857. The most important national parks or reservations in the United States are: Yosemite Park and Mariposa Grove, on the Merced River in Mariposa county, Cal., discovered in 1851, and established by Congress1864 Yellowstone National Park, 3,575 square miles, nearly all in northwestern Wyoming, established by act of CongressMay 1, 1872 A State forestry commission was appointed by New York State for the preservation of the Adirondack forest1885 State reservation at Niagara Falls opened to the publicJuly 15, 1885
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