cession

• The two treaties in which the cession was acknowledged were brought about without military aid. —  Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858
• It provided for the cession, also, to the United States of the Philippine Islands and the payment of $20,000,000 therefor The total casualties in battle, during the war, in our navy, were 17 killed and 67 wounded (no naval officer injured); and, in our army, 23 officers and 257 men killed, and 113 officers and 1464 men wounded; grand total, 297 killed and 1644 wounded, of all arms of the service The deaths from disease and causes other than battle, in camps and at sea, were, 80 officers and 2485 enlisted men. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• Will it be argued that this cession is abrogated and that Cyprus must return to Turkey directly and unconditionally? —  The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
• By their acts of cession, they abdicated their own sovereignty over the District, and thus made room for that provided by the United States constitution, which sovereignty was to commence as soon as a cession of territory by states, and its acceptance by Congress furnished a sphere for its exercise That the abolition of slavery is within the sphere of legislation, I argue, secondly_, from the fact, that slavery as a legal system, is the creature of legislation_. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• By their acts of cession, they abdicated their own sovereignty over the District, and thus made room for that provided by the United States' constitution, which sovereignty was to commence as soon as a cession of territory by states, and its acceptance by Congress, furnished a sphere for its exercise. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

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