 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Military pensions - 1858 - 578 pages
...day of May, 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... | |
 | Peleg Sprague - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1858 - 540 pages
...distorted. The next topic of crimination against our forefathers, was a clause originally inserted in the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western country, when it was reported by a committee, in 1785, and which prohibited the sale, by the public... | |
 | John Dillon - 1859 - 664 pages
...niath. CHAKI^S THOMSON, Sec'y. KICHAEB H. LEE, Pres't SUPPLEMENT. A supplement to am 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,... | |
 | Ohio - Ohio - 1860 - 932 pages
...Ohio Kiver, 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... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1831 - 340 pages
...this pledge. On the 20th of May, 1785, an ordinance was passed by the Congress of the Confederation, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and this was the first act of general legislation on the subject. This act may be found in the new... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 596 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... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1865 - 1182 pages
...Revolution, and before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Congress, by an act of the 20th May, 1785, began the work of laying the foundation...established of reserving "the lot number sixteen of every township for the maintenance of public schools within the said township," in recent years duplicated... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1068 pages
...the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Congress, by an act of the 20th Мяу, 178"), began the work of laying the foundation of the land...established of reserving "the lot number sixteen of every town-liip for the maintenance of public schools within the said township," in recent years duplicated... | |
 | 1866 - 724 pages
...the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Congress, by an act of the 20l h May, 17S5, began the work of laying the foundation of the land...mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," hi which thr principle was established of reserving "the lot number sixteen of every township f.ir... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 722 pages
...Revolution, and before (he adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Congress, by an aot of the 20ih May, 1785, began the work of laying the foundation...ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lauds in the western territory," in which the principle was established of reserving "the lot number... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
