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. . . . . ; By 1870 the District's population had grown 75% from the previous census to nearly 132,000 residents. Despite the city's growth Washington still had dirt roads and lacked basic sanitation Some members of Congress suggested moving the capital further west but President Ulysses S Grant refused to consider such a proposal.

The Residence Act of 1790 officially titled an Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States (1 Stat 130) was a United States federal statute adopted during the second session of the First United States Congress and signed into law by President George Washington on July 16 1790 the Act provided for a national capital and permanent seat of government to be established at a site along the Potomac River and empowered President Washington to appoint commissioners to oversee the project it also set a deadline of December 1800 for the capital to be ready and designated Philadelphia as the nation's temporary capital while the new seat of government was being built At the time the federal government was operating out of New York City, 6 Congress and the public, Main articles: Dred Scott v Sandford and Freedom suits. Yellow flag waving.svg David Davis December 1 1862 December 8 1862, 4 Planned capitals The Battle of Molino del Rey. Congress's "power of the purse" authorizes taxing citizens spending money and printing currency. .