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 | | This body was to have control of Indian affairs, impose taxes, nominate all civil officers, authorize the opening of new lands to settlement, and in general have charge of colonial defence, and of the enlistment, equipment and maintenance of an army. |
 | | (Albany, 1850); A. Weise, The History of the City of Albany (Albany, 1884); G. Howell and J. Tenney, Bi-Centennial History of Albany (New York, 1886); Amasa J. Parker, Landmarks of Albany County (Syracuse, 1897); and Cuyler Reynolds, Albany Chronicles; or Albany Mayors and Contemporaneous Chronology (Albany, 1907). |
 | | He compiled new tables of the sun and moon, long accepted as authoritative, discovered the movement of the sun's apogee, and assigned to annual precession the improved value of 55'. |
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