 | University of Michigan - Michigan - 1942 - 454 pages
...the necessary functions of government (Hinsdale, Chap. XVI). On May 20, 1785, the Congress adopted "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western country," establishing a system of rectangular land surveys for the new country. The ordinance contained... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - Education - 1945 - 1024 pages
...Townships shall fall or'may be situated shall or may think proper or direct.' It will be recalled that the Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory passed on May 20, 1785, specified that "There shall be reserved the lot N° 16 of every Township for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1961 - 880 pages
...sure way to find a taker where there is no buyer is the grant or giveaway. On May 20, 1785, it adopted "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." The act provided among other things: "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of each township, for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963
...sure way to find a taker where there is no buyer is the grant or giveaway. On May 20, 1785, it adopted "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory." The act provided among other things : "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of every township, for... | |
 | Archives - 1977 - 614 pages
...sevenrange tract be surveyed before it could be settled. Field work began in September 1785, but 1 "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory, May 20, 1785," in Lowell O. Stewart, Public Land Surveys: History, Instructions, Methods (Ames, Iowa,... | |
 | Robert Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1096 pages
...land at or near Detroit, see Diary, January 23, and notes. Although the preliminary version of the ordinance for "ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory" that Congress considered in 1784 contained no provision for reserving lands for Canadian refugees,... | |
 | Benjamin L. DeWhitt - Government publications - 1989 - 400 pages
...for marking out and disposing of this land were set forth in the Land Ordinance of May 20, 1785. This "Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory" provided for the rectangular survey of land in the area west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio... | |
 | Ralph D. Gray, Michael A. Morrison - History - 1994 - 500 pages
...territory who had the power to implement the slavery prohibition were the men least likely to do so. 29 "An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," Act of May 20, 1785, Journals of the Continental Congress, XXVIII, 375-381, quotation, 378. 30 Onuf,... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
