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 THE FEDERAL AND STATE

COLONIAL CHARTERS, AND OTHER ORGANIC LAWS

OF THE

STATES, TERRITORIES, AND COLONIES

NOW OR HERETOFORE FORMING

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE, Ph. D., LL. D.

Member of the Pennsylvania Bar; Fellow and Professor of American Constitutional History at the University of Pennsylvania, 1885-1898; Member of the American Historical Association; Author of The Constitutional History of the United States, 1765-1895; A (State) Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850; A Short Constitutional History of the United States; A (Social and Economic) History of the American People; A History of the Civil War; Editor of the History of North America, Volumes IX, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, XX; Author of The Government of the People of the United States; Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania; The Life of William Pepper, etc.

VOL. I United States—Alabama—District of Columbia

WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1909