The Establishment and Government of the District of Columbia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Establishment and Government of the District of ColumbiaState in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings.The right to exercise exclusive authority at the seat of govern ment was conferred upon Congress in order that the legislative and executive functions of the Government might be exercised without risk of interference, and in consideration of the fact that in June, 1783, the Continental Congress transferred its sessions from Phila delphia to evade a hostile demonstration which was made toward it by a body of soldiers of the Revolutionary army in order to hasten pay ment for their services as such, and that. The authorities of that city and the State of Pennsylvania acknowledged their inability to protect that Congress from the threatened intimidation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.