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THE FEDERAL AND STATE

CONSTITUTIONS

COLONIAL CHARTERS, AND OTHER ORGANIC LAWS

OF THE

STATES, TERRITORIES, AND COLONIES

NOW OR HERETOFORE FORMING

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


Compiled and Edited
under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906
By

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