The Development Of The District Of Columbia

Author : Henry B. F. Macfarland
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ISBN 13 : 9781331280651
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book The Development of the District of Columbia written by Henry B. F. Macfarland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of the District of Columbia: Address Delivered by the Hon. Henry B. McFarland At the Executive Mansion, on the morning of Wednesday, December 12, 1900, following a reception by the President of the United States to the Governors of the States and Territories, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and others, exercises commemorative of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia were held in the East Room. Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, Chairman of the Joint Committee on the celebration of the Centennial, introduced Mr. John Joy Edson, Chairman of the Committee on Exercises at the Executive Mansion, as Presiding Officer. There were present the President of the United States, the members of his Cabinet, the Chief Justice of the United States, and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Commanding General of the Army, the Admiral of the Navy, the Senate Committees on the Centennial Celebration and the District of Columbia, the House Committees on the Centennial Celebration and the District of Columbia, the Governors of the States and Territories, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the members of the Committee at Large and of the Citizens Committee on the Centennial Celebration, the members of the Court of Appeals and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the members of the United States Court of Claims, and a number of the citizens of the District of Columbia. In the course of the exercises the address which follows was delivered by the Honorable Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.