| William T. Young - 1852 - 432 pages
...popular designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20, 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... | |
| Bounties, Military - 1854 - 944 pages
...16th of 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... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 588 pages
...Bastrop's, St. Vrain, 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.... | |
| James Wickes Taylor - Ohio - 1854 - 562 pages
...forced a public system of survey and sale upon the attention of Congress. On the 20th of May, 1785, "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" was perfected by Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of surveyors—one... | |
| James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 604 pages
...forced a public system of survey and sale upon the attention of Congress. On the 20th of May, 1785, " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" was perfected by Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of surveyors —... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...by Roberts, 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 establishment,... | |
| William L. G. Smith - Canada History War of 1812 - 1856 - 798 pages
...popular 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 - History - 1856 - 798 pages
...popular 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 - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...eighty-five, 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... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...entry and settlement of the lands thus purchased by the treaties of Fort Stanwix, and Fort Mclntosh, " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the "Western Territory," was passed by the Congress on the 20th of May, 1785. Its material provisions are these : "A surveyor... | |
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