The boundaries of the various cessions of land by the different Indian tribes were traced out and located upon the maps of the States and Territories left uncompleted at the date of the last annual report.
Considerable annual payments are now made by Sarawak and British North Borneo for the territorial cessions obtained by them.
Against all these cessions the Spanish entered their protest, as they claimed the suzerainty over the Sulu Archipelago and the Sulu Dependencies in Borneo and the islands.
He did not ask for furs; he did not stealthily give them whiskey; he did not come to summon them to councils at the agent's house; and he did not ask for cessions of land.
Negotiations are now depending with the tribes in the Illinois Territory and with the Choctaws, by which it is expected that other extensive cessions will be made.
I take great interest in stating that the cessions already made, which are considered so important to the United States, have been obtained on conditions very satisfactory to the Indians.
The report does not assent to the construction of the two States, but recommends an accommodation, by liberal cessions of territory, or by an admission, on their part, of the powers claimed by Congress.
The acceptance of these cessions is an acknowledgment of the right of the Cherokees to make or withhold them.
Cessions have in the past often been effected by transactions which are analogous to transactions in private business life.
Cessions which are the outcome of peaceable negotiations may be agreed upon by the interested States from different motives and for different purposes.
For there is no duty on the part of third States to acquiesce in such cessions of territory as endanger the balance of power or are otherwise of vital importance.
All such cases comprise, for all practical purposes, cessions of pieces of territory, but in strict law they remain the property of the leasing State.
Both subjects must be States, and only those cessions in which both subjects are States concern the Law of Nations.
The ordinary reader in following the treaty provisions, in which the boundaries of the various cessions are so specifically and minutely laid down, would anticipate but little difficulty in tracing those boundaries upon the modern map.
The conflicting cessionsin that State may be briefly enumerated as follows: 1.
These and subsequent cessions of these two tribes must be shown upon a map of "original cessions.
Another difficulty that has arisen, and one which, in order to avoid confusion, will necessitate the duplication in the atlas of the maps of several States, is the attempt to show not only original, but also secondary cessions of land.
Oconee river, but after a remonstrance of one of their half-breed chiefs Congress decided that the cessions were invalid, and the National government negotiated, in 1790, a new treaty which ceded only the lands E.
Notwithstanding the tenseness of the situation, Harrison negotiated the land cessions of 1809, which cost the Indians their last valuable hunting-grounds in Indiana.
They seem to have contemplated that, from time to time, cessions would be secured from the Indians and tracts would be opened for settlement.
His crowning scheme for bringing together the tribes of the Middle West into a grand democratic confederacy to regulate land cessions and other dealings with the whites stamps him as perhaps the most statesmanlike member of his race.
Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the United States: illustrated by those in Indiana.
The object of this treaty seems to have been the confirmation of former treaties and the adjustment of boundary lines of previous cessions of land.
On this occasion, as in the peace of 450, no disgraceful or destructive conditions were imposed on the brave people by the Romans; no cessions even of territory seem to have taken place.
The terms granted by Rome were tolerable; cessions of territory were required from some of them, from the Paeligni for instance, but they do not seem to have been of much importance.
The emperor made cautious attempts to secure cessions of territory from Prussia on the Rhine, but was met with a blunt refusal from Bismarck.
Austria purchased peace by furthercessions of territory, and by joining the Continental System.
Great Britain, on the other hand, wished to make France a party to the cessions made by her allies, and successfully insisted on the negotiation of a single comprehensive treaty.
Indemnification, just ground for requiring cessions from an enemy, iii.
Security, a just ground to demand cessionsfrom an enemy, iii.
If they conflicted with it, accepting the cessions was a violation of the constitution.
You will, perhaps, say, that Virginia and Maryland made their cessions of the territory, which constitutes the District of Columbia, with reservations on the subject of slavery.
In distinction from the practice ruling in the case of most similar cessions in recent history, the property and persons of private German nationals, as distinct from their Government, are also injuriously affected.
Buonaparte in return offered much, but most of his cessions were clogged with conditions, which at once showed how unwillingly they were made, and seemed in most cases, to provide the means of annulling them when times should be favourable.
The other guarantees they talk of are further cessions in Asia, specifically Batoum, or the occupation of Varna, or Silistria, instead of the Principalities.
That the general treaty contains no guarantee is evident from the specific guarantee of the cessions made by Saxony to Prussia, which would have been unnecessary if the spirit of the treaty had been that of existent guarantee.
Louis the Fourteenth made all, or nearly all, the cessions at Ryswick, and at Nimeguen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cessions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
