Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volumul 24The Society, 1922 |
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Act of Congress Alexander American appointed artists Blake Board of Aldermen Board of Common Building Caldwell Calvert County Capitol Charles Chevy Chase Clerk Columbia Historical Society Commission Commissioners committee Common Council Connecticut Ave Corcoran Gallery Court Cranch Daniel Reintzel December District of Columbia elected Elias Boudinot erected F St February Fourth Church Gallery of Art George Georgetown Government Governor H St Hall held Henry honor ington January John Cox Joseph Josiah Beall Judge July June K Street Lafayette March market house Maryland Mayor meeting Miss Monday Nathan Loughborough National Capital National Intelligencer Ness Northern Liberty Market painted painter pastor persons portraits Presbyterian Province of Maryland record resolution Richard Robert Rufus Dawes S. F. B. Morse Samuel School Secretary Shepherd Sixteenth St Smith Square stalls statue Thomas Thomas Corcoran tion town United Uriah Forrest vote voters Woodward York Avenue
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Pagina 120 - Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of Representatives.
Pagina 117 - Every white* male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
Pagina 203 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Pagina 119 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Pagina 125 - Resolved, by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the City of Washington...
Pagina 217 - And what could you, what should you, what would you do ? " Why, just what he did. They were left in the lurch For the want of more wadding. He ran to the church, Broke the door, stripped the pews, and dashed out in the road With his arms full of hymn-books, and threw down his load At their feet. Then above all the shouting and shots Bang his voice: ' Put Watts into 'em ! boys, give 'em Watts !'
Pagina 164 - The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable, but awful. Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment...
Pagina 216 - He stuck in their gorge, For he loved the Lord God and he hated King George. He had cause, you might say ! When the Hessians that day Marched up with Knyphausen they stopped on their way At the " Farms," where his wife, with a child in her arms, Sat alone in the house. How it happened none knew But God — and that one of the hireling crew Who fired the shot. Enough ! there she lay, And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband away...
Pagina 151 - It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of the United States a signal victory over their enemies on this lake. The British squadron, consisting of two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop, have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict.
Pagina 117 - ... state above the value of thirty pounds current money, and having resided in the county, in which they offer to vote, one whole year next preceding the election, shall have a right of suffrage, in the election of Delegates for such county...