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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e war debt of the colonies,over $20,000,000 in amount. This boreheaviest on the New England section, anda bill introduced to have the new nation sylvania, had about half. Feeling ran sohigh that the stability of the new Unionwas threatened, and Hamilton, a shrewdpolitician, managed to arrange for the votesof Southern representatives for the assump-tion of the State debts in return for thesupport of those who were deeply interestedin this, and who, having no chance to THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON secure the capital for their States, agreedto favor a Southern site. Pennsylvania was brought into the bar-gain by a provision that the seat of govern-ment should remain in Philadelphia for tenyears, and on July 9, 1790, by a vote of tal in having the present location chosen.His home being but a few miles away, hewas thoroughly familiar with the country.Alexandria, within the bounds set, wasthe principal trading port of the section,and the location near the head of naviga-
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GUAND STAIRCASE, NATIONAL LIBRARY 32 to 29, it was decided to place the capitalcity somewhere in a territory not less thanten miles square, and located on thePotomac, within designated bounds. Considerable latitude was allowed thecommissioners who were to select the site,practically a range of 100 miles being given.President Washington was largely instrumen- tion, over 100 miles from Chesapeake Bay,afforded an opportunity to oppose a hostilefleet ascending the river. By a proclama-tion issued March 30, 1791, the Presidentannounced that the Federal District hadbeen located. This was ten miles square,lying on both sides of the river, about two-thirds being in Maryland, the remainder in 8 THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON Virginia, the cities of Alexandria, Va., andGeorgetown, Md., being included. The chosen district was partij^ woodland,marsh and hills, partly under cultivation,most of the farm land being the property offour men, one of them, of whom Wash- once and asked

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