Land's politician admitting slip before Congress

Usage examples of territory.

Not until 1869, however, when Wyoming, as a territory, accorded women suffrage on terms of equality with men and continued to grant such privileges after its admission as a State in 1890, did these advocates register a notable victory.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

During this precarious state of the supreme power, a difference would immediately be experienced between those portions of territory which were subjected to the feudal tenures, and those which were possessed by an allodial or free title.

The prayers of the Goths were granted, and their service was accepted by the Imperial court: and orders were immediately despatched to the civil and military governors of the Thracian diocese, to make the necessary preparations for the passage and subsistence of a great people, till a proper and sufficient territory could be allotted for their future residence.

Each tour extended over new territory, including localities where Anarchism had never before received a hearing.

South stretched the wide expanse of the valley, with the broad Turnbull flashing in the midst and sweeping away to the west in lazy curves quite different from the arrowy little stream which he knew near the cave and through his own territory.

In such a case the debt follows the territory, and the duty of assessing and collecting taxes to satisfy it devolves upon the succeeding corporations and their officers.

Of this vast territory, which is composed of three provinces, Benguela, Congo, and Angola, there was but little known then except the coast.

Trade was slow because most of the territory had been beavered out and the Company did not enjoy the monopoly there it had elsewhere.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

Nor did Whitey Sorkin: a lot of his bettors were old and steady customers, and lines of credit went with the territory.

The region is divided into territories, and Brount runs this territory with Shantytown as his base of operations.

He became fully aware of the political ploys, the secret deals and dirty tricks, Brount employed to solidify his control over the territory.

The Missouri Compromise, made in 1820 upon the occasion of the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave State, whereby, in consideration of such admission, slavery was forever excluded from the Northwest Territory, was ruthlessly repealed in 1854, by a Congress elected in the interests of the slave power, the intent being to force slavery into that vast Territory which had so long been dedicated to freedom.

The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition.