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    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and...
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  • The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, officially An Act Concerning the District of Columbia (6th Congress, 2nd Sess., ch. 15, 2 Stat. 103, February...
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    until the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. That act cancelled the charters of the towns and brought the entire area within the district borders...
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    Mexico Territory The Montana Organic Act, created the Territory of Montana in 1864 The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, amalgamated Anacostia, Georgetown...
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  • incorporated the District of Columbia and placed it under the exclusive control of Congress District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, an act by the United...
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    separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory...
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    remain in force within the District. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown...
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  • 1964. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is enacted by Congress, creating a single, unified government of the District of Columbia. From 1874...
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    part of the county. Upon the passage of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, the three governments were unified under a single District government...
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    and high-ranking government and military officials. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 moved the city's boundary to its current size, thus Sheridan-Kalorama...
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    passage of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, the District was brought under the direct political control of Congress. The Board of Commissioners...
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    infrastructure improvements and make the district's government operate more efficiently, Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which created a new government...
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    after moving to the District, Congress passed the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 and incorporated the new federal District under its sole authority...
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    District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, which sovereign citizens believe created a "United States corporation" to govern the District of Columbia under...
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  • Grant is a 2017 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow. Grant...
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    Commission on Fish and Fisheries is founded. February 21 – The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is signed into law by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant....
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    Sodomy laws in the United States (category Legal history of the United States)
    district. In 1871, Congress enacted the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, a law that reorganized the district government and granted it home rule...
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    maintaining that the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 unlawfully abrogated the United States Constitution by removing the Titles of Nobility Amendment...
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    Congressional Act of 1871 placed a governor at the head of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Militia, and from 1871 to 1887, there...
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    passage of the Organic Act of 1871, which created a new government for the entire District of Columbia. This Act effectively combined the City of Washington...
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  • portion of the District back to that state in 1846. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 revoked the charters of the individual cities of Washington...
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    District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...
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    veto. The district as a whole had no governor or any other executive position in that period. In 1871, with the District of Columbia Organic Act, the three...
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  • 21 – District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 March 22 In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed...
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    the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 came into law, it extended the boundaries of the City of Washington to the present District of Columbia. Florida...
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    the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, which officially organized the district and placed the entire territory under the exclusive control of the...
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    include the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the four Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868, the three Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871, and the three Constitutional...
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  • purposes. B. ^ All counties within the District of Columbia were abolished by the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. C. ^ Alexandria and Falls Church...
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    Hannah Simpson Grant (category Mothers of presidents of the United States)
    1883) was the mother of Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the Union Army during the American Civil War and the 18th president of the United States...
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  • 1871 District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 effected. Norton P. Chipman becomes delegate to the US House of Representatives from the District of Columbia...
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