The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic ...

THE FEDERAL AND STATE

1/1910

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 Constitu-
tional 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 His-
tory 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

342.78 T3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX WILL BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE LAST VOLUME.]

Page.

Constitution of the United States-1787.

Letters patent to John Cabot-1496--

LIST OF AUTHORITIES.