 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 Seiten
...now John Smith, T. Renaul's, Dubuque's. and Chouteau's claims to lands and lead mines. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Boundary lines between Virginia and Kentucky ascertained. Location of Virginia military bounty land.... | |
 | 1854 - 944 Seiten
...September, 1776. [6.] [Duane's Edition of the Laws of tlie U. 8., vol. 1, page 563.] CHAP. 32. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Surveyors to be appointed, Ac. • • * Army bounty lands to be drawn for : Secretary of War to transmit... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - 1855 - 804 Seiten
...United States in Congress Assembled. July 9, 1788. A Supplement to an ordinance entitled " An Ordinance for ascertaining the Mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory." Whereas it is found to be inconvenient to execute that part of the Land-Ordinance, passed May 20, 1785,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 536 Seiten
...from its liability to be so appropriated ? So early as the year 1785, congress passed " an ordinance ! for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," in which, for the purpose of securing to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 798 Seiten
...designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20th, 1785, entitled 'An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory.' The meaning is here geographical, and not political ; for no government was established there till... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 798 Seiten
...designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20th, 1785, entitled 'An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory.' The meaning is here geographical, and not political; for no government was established there till more... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 Seiten
...seems, in its very title, to show the unsettled state of public opinion. It was entitled "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." It provided, that a Surveyor be appointed by Congress, or a committee of States from each State, under... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - 1858 - 566 Seiten
...in the year of our Lord 1786, did resolve "that the surveyors, appointed pursuant to the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory, should proceed in the execution thereof, within the east and west lines therein mentioned," and the... | |
 | John Dillon - 1859 - 664 Seiten
...Indians.f XXI.— On the 20th of May, 1785, the Congress of the United States passed "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory ."J.. XXII.— By an order of Congress, of the- 15th of June, 1785, the following proclamation was... | |
 | Ohio - 1860 - 932 Seiten
...was the origin of the public school system of the northwestern States. In May, 1785, the " Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," was perfected by Congress. By one of its provisions, a thirty-sixth part of every township was expressly... | |
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An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory... 
