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HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATION.

[BOOK II.

from her, and from the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, South-Carolina, and Georgia, at still later periods, this great source of national dissension was at last dried up.^[1]

↑ The history of these cessions will be found in the Introduction to the Land Laws of the United States, printed by order of congress in 1810, 1817, and 1828; and in the first volume of the Laws of the United States, printed by Bioren and Duane in 1815, p. 452, &c.

[1] The history of these cessions will be found in the Introduction to the Land Laws of the United States, printed by order of congress in 1810, 1817, and 1828; and in the first volume of the Laws of the United States, printed by Bioren and Duane in 1815, p. 452, &c.

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