 | United States. Department of Education - Education - 1868 - 934 pages
...recommitted by Congress to a committee of twelve.* This committee on the fourteenth of April reported " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," which contained the following paragraph : There shall be reserved the central section of every township... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1868 - 930 pages
...recommitted by Congress to a committee of twelve.* This committee on the fourteenth of April reported " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," which contained the following paragraph : There shall be reserved the central section of every township... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 982 pages
...expenses of government, and other public uses. This suggestion ripened into legislation two years later: AN ORDINANCE for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory. Adopted by Congress May 20, 1785. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 540 pages
...from its liability to be so appropriated ? So early as the year 1785, congress passed " an ordinance l for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," in which, for the purpose of securing to the olficers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment,... | |
 | Edmund De Schweinitz - Frontier and pioneer life - 1870 - 760 pages
...ignorance. He brought back news of the treaty at Fort McIntosh, and of the passage in Congress of " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory," by which a corps of surveyors, one from each State, under Thomas Hutchins, Geographer of the United... | |
 | Ezra Slocum Carr - History - 1875 - 480 pages
...other government but ours. The policy originated at a very early period of our history. In the first "Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory," Congress directed that every sixteenth section of every township, should be reserved for schools; and... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1876 - 52 pages
...him, from time to time, to the use of the several officers concerned in carrying into execution, the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territories. After the establishment in 1794 of a corps of artillerists and engineers, and the formation... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1877 - 706 pages
...there is a distinct recognition of the claims of schools, was passed May \!i), ITS."), aud was entitled "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." The provision was as follows : "There shall he reserved the lot No. 16 of every township for the maintenance... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1879 - 996 pages
...him, from time to time, to the use of the several officers concerned in carrying into execution the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territories." After the establishment in 17ÍI4 of a corps of artillerists and engineers, and the foriiiatiiiu... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
