. A bird's eye view of our federal government . OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL. 1, The City and its Government, Looking at our federal government, we note first its location,which is in the city of Washington, on the banks of the Potomacriver. This national capital is not in any of the United States,but in the District of Columbia, a sort of neutral territory setapart for it. In 1790 the states of Virginia and Marylandceded this territory, a tract ten miles square, to the generalgovernment, and since then the district has been governed, asto its local as well as to its general afiairs, by congress. Ther
. A bird's eye view of our federal government . OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL. 1, The City and its Government, Looking at our federal government, we note first its location,which is in the city of Washington, on the banks of the Potomacriver. This national capital is not in any of the United States,but in the District of Columbia, a sort of neutral territory setapart for it. In 1790 the states of Virginia and Marylandceded this territory, a tract ten miles square, to the generalgovernment, and since then the district has been governed, asto its local as well as to its general afiairs, by congress. Theresidents of the district have no voice in their govern-ment,* and no elections are there held for congressmen orfor president. j\Iany of the residents, however, do vote forthese officers, as they maintain a legal residence at theirhomes in the states, and return thither to cast their the president is now a citizen of Buffalo, N. Y., and re-turned to that city to vote for Gov. Hill in the last stat^ election. ♦This has not always be
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