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Smithsonian
January 31, 2018
Two hundred and three years ago this month, President James Madison approved the act of Congress purchasing Thomas Jefferson's private library. Intended to restock the Library of Congress after its previous holdings were destroyed by British arson during the War of 1812, the transfer of books fromÃâà...
Sampson Independent
January 28, 2018
MAGNOLIA — William Rufus DeVane King (1786-1853) is memorialized in many places, most notably in North Carolina in Clinton and Chapel Hill; and in Alabama in Selma. His influence was felt in the District of Columbia, the State of Washington, France and Russia. One account reported that WilliamÃâà...
NOLA.com
January 9, 2018
The idea gained momentum in 1807, when an Act of Congress set aside a 60-foot right-of-way within a soon-to-be-surveyed boulevard, so that it might be dug out to unite the Carondelet Canal with the Mississippi. But engineers recognized that a lock would be needed to reconcile the differing water levels,Ãâà...
The Federalist
December 7, 2017
In the wake of public outrage over Sedition Act prosecutions, Congress allowed the Act to lapse in 1800, but not before the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions—which argued that states had the right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional—laid the intellectual groundwork for the nullification andÃâà...
WND.com
December 2, 2017
On April 26, 1802, President Jefferson extended a 1787 act of Congress in which special lands were designated: “For the sole use of Christian Indians and the Moravian Brethren missionaries for civilizing the ... In 1806 and 1807, two similar treaties were made with the Wyandotte and Cherokee tribes.
Alexandria Town Talk
August 17, 2017
... that it may have on the acts of that night certainly is admissible," he wrote. "However, the defendant will be allowed to enter any objections that are allowed under the Code of Evidence." Bennett also announced that the trial is on track for Oct. 2, saying it would take "an act of Congress" to change that.
NOLA.com
May 10, 2017
New Orleans needed that land more than the feds, so in 1807 an Act of Congress transferred the commons to city ownership. The Americans retained Fort San Carlos, which they called St. Charles, but demolished all other defensive spaces and subdivided them to become the Canal, Esplanade andÃâà...
History
October 8, 2013
In 1807, Congress increased the number of justices to seven; in 1837, the number was bumped up to nine; and in 1863, it rose to 10. In 1866, Congress passed the Judicial Circuits Act, which shrank the number of justices back down to seven and prevented President Andrew Johnson from appointingÃâà...
Stanford Report
November 6, 2007
This year marked a noteworthy bicentenary: The transatlantic slave trade was abolished first with an act of Congress on March 2, 1807, followed with a British act of Parliament on March 25. In England, the anniversary was remembered with saturation media coverage, academic conferences, a proliferationÃâà...
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