Cessions

The reduced writings were driven by a smaller capital base, lower reinstatement premiums and greater cessions to third party reinsurers, partially offset by price improvements during the January and June renewals.

Because treaties consisted largely of land cessions and purchases, the value of the land handed over to the federal government was critical to the payment received by a given Native nation.

Due to later cessions by the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw in 1816, they retained only about one-quarter of their former territories in Alabama.

It is to provide for naturalization, standards of weights and measures, post offices and roads, and patents; to directly govern the federal district and cessions of land by the states for forts and arsenals.

Late 19th century images such as this often had political undertones because of French territorial cessions to Germany in 1871.

No known ruler in Europe matched that yearly total before the twelfth century, and his cessions are plausibly attributed to political insecurity.