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The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single ...
January–March. February 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 from office by impeachment. The U.S. Army issues an order for the abandonment of Fort Kearny, Nebraska.
The Treaty of Washington was a treaty signed and ratified by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused by British-built warships ...
Organic Act of 1871. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new district corporation [13] governing the entire federal territory, called the District of Columbia, thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the district (Port of Georgetown, the City of Washington, and Washington County) and their governments.
Sovereign citizen movement. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of ...
1871 is a non-profit digital startup incubator located in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois. The organization was founded in 2012 by J. B. Pritzker and is the flagship project of The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC), a non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs on their path to building high-growth, sustainable businesses that serve as platforms for economic development ...
New Jersey followed New York's lead in 1816, when it enacted its first corporate law. [3] In 1837, Connecticut adopted a general corporation statute that allowed for the incorporation of any corporation engaged in any lawful business. [3] Delaware did not enact its first corporation law until 1883.
In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes a territory of the United States and specifies how it is to be governed, [1] or an agency to manage certain federal lands. In the absence of an organic law a territory is classified as unorganized . The first such act was the Northwest Ordinance ...