Take this example in 1803 the House turned to the affairs of the District of Columbia and began discussing a bill to return portions of the Territory of Columbia to Virginia. I suppose the Territory of Columbia was no longer used after the District lost what home rule it had in the second half of the 19th century.
The windlass is an apparatus for moving heavy weights. Typically, a windlass consists of a horizontal cylinder (barrel), which is rotated by the turn of a crank or belt. A winch is affixed to one or both ends, and a cable or rope is wound around the winch, pulling a weight attached to the opposite end. A windlass would be constructed above a shaft which allowed heavy buckets to be hauled up to the surface. 2  This process would be used until the shaft got below 40 metres deep when the windlass would be replaced by a 'whip' or a 'whim' .
Molasses. Molasses, from the Latin word melaceres, meaning honey-like, is a thick dark syrup that is a byproduct of sugar refining. It results when sugar is crystallized out of sugar cane or sugar beet juice.Molasses is sold both for human consumption, to be used in baking, and in the brewing of ale and distillation of rum, and as an ingredient in animal feed.n addition to molasses, which is itself a byproduct of the processing of sugar cane, there are several others materials that are used for other purposes. After pressing the juice out of the cane stalks, the dry stalk residue, called bagasse, are used as fuel in the plant.