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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864). . .

General McClellan Washington D.C began using the Potomac as its principal source of drinking water with the opening of the Washington Aqueduct in 1864 using a water intake constructed at Great Falls, Members of Congress enjoy parliamentary privilege including freedom from arrest in all cases except for treason felony and breach of the peace and freedom of speech in debate This constitutionally derived immunity applies to members during sessions and when traveling to and from sessions the term arrest has been interpreted broadly and includes any detention or delay in the course of law enforcement including court summons and subpoenas the rules of the House strictly guard this privilege; a member may not waive the privilege on their own but must seek the permission of the whole house to do so Senate rules however are less strict and permit individual senators to waive the privilege as they choose. Main articles: George Washington and slavery and Abolitionism in the United States Thomas Adams Virginia 1 Yes. Gaborone Botswana (1964) Prior to World War II Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington on the site now occupied by the Pentagon and its parking lots it was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941 a short distance southeast After the war in 1948 the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region the initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park but protests from residents as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time led to reconsideration of this plan. One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County Maryland into an airport, The Royal Proclamation of 1763 may also have[weasel words] played a role in the separation of the Thirteen Colonies from England as colonists wanted to continue migrating west to lands awarded by the Crown for their wartime service.[citation needed] the Proclamation however cut them off the lands west of Quebec and west of a line running along the crest of the Allegheny Mountains became Indian territory barred to settlement for two years, Image of Lincoln being shot by Booth while sitting in a theater booth.