Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 19
... land , and that the grant to the city of Lincoln was void . It is not clear to your committee whether the association which became incorporated August 26 , 1867 , and was referred to in the legend of the plats , is entitled to the block ...
... land , and that the grant to the city of Lincoln was void . It is not clear to your committee whether the association which became incorporated August 26 , 1867 , and was referred to in the legend of the plats , is entitled to the block ...
Σελίδα 28
... land , after which we returned to camp , feeling so rich . Go away with your small east- ern lots . I would not take one as a gift . We have never since viewed our possession ; for aught we know they have been sold for taxes . We again ...
... land , after which we returned to camp , feeling so rich . Go away with your small east- ern lots . I would not take one as a gift . We have never since viewed our possession ; for aught we know they have been sold for taxes . We again ...
Σελίδα 32
... land to what is now called Civil Bend , but which was then known as Hog Thief Bend , about five miles from Nebraska City . On the steamer Swatara I had made the acquaintance of William Lambert , who lived there . When I arrived at his ...
... land to what is now called Civil Bend , but which was then known as Hog Thief Bend , about five miles from Nebraska City . On the steamer Swatara I had made the acquaintance of William Lambert , who lived there . When I arrived at his ...
Σελίδα 38
... lands to the government . In order to facilitate business we determined to call a convention to meet at St. Joseph , Mo. , during the winters of '53 and '54 , for the purpose of memorializing the President and Congress in regard to the ...
... lands to the government . In order to facilitate business we determined to call a convention to meet at St. Joseph , Mo. , during the winters of '53 and '54 , for the purpose of memorializing the President and Congress in regard to the ...
Σελίδα 41
... land he should feel that it was his duty to order them off and to remove them by force if necessary . Under this state of facts Mr. Nuckolls very prudently thought it best not to take the risk , and came home ( after having waited in St ...
... land he should feel that it was his duty to order them off and to remove them by force if necessary . Under this state of facts Mr. Nuckolls very prudently thought it best not to take the risk , and came home ( after having waited in St ...
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Σελίδα 200 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Σελίδα 171 - That the Legislature of said State, by a Solemn Public Act, shall declare the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition...
Σελίδα 171 - Approved, April 19th, 1864. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition, that within the state of Nebraska, there shall be no denial •of the elective franchise, or of any other right, to any person, by reason of race or color, •excepting Indians not taxed...
Σελίδα 34 - to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate to appoint ambassadors...
Σελίδα 183 - Pekitanoui, following the account which the Indians have given me; for from them I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake...
Σελίδα 171 - ... the assent of the said state to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the president of the United States, on or before the fourth Monday in November next, an authentic copy of the said act, upon the receipt whereof the president, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of said state into the Union shall be considered as complete...
Σελίδα 183 - As we were discoursing of them, sailing gently down a beautiful, still, clear water, we heard the noise of a rapid into which we were about to fall. I have seen nothing more frightful ; a mass of large trees...
Σελίδα 183 - I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake, which is the source of another deep river, running to the west, where it empties into the sea....
Σελίδα 199 - Their masters have no other riches nor substance; of them they eat, they drink, they apparel, they...
Σελίδα 183 - I have seen nothing more frightful; a mass of large trees, entire, with branches, real floating islands, came rushing from the mouth of the river Pekitanoui, so impetuously, that we could not, without great danger, expose ourselves to pass across.