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Gov Godwin Obaseki of Edo says the state government has concluded plans to launch a resident identification card for residents to tackle insecurity in the state. | Pulse Nigeria
Gov. Jackson issued a number of orders and laws to set up American government in the new territory. Among Jackson's first decrees was the order that ships arriving from anywhere in the vast expanse from the Equator to latitude 33 north (Charleston, S.C.) would have to quarantine before docking. Jackson established that the quarantine period might be as short as 24 hours or as long as 40 days. St. Augustine may well have been the first city in today's U.S. to experience yellow fever. Not every "first" is glorious and you take the bad with the good. Yellow fever arrived in our city in 1649,...