 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 316 pages
...other public and general purposes. " Reason and justice," said the Assembly of New Jersey, in 1778, " must decide that the property which existed in the...previous to the present Revolution ought now to belong to the Congress, in trust for the use and benefit of the United States. They have fought and bled for... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1908 - 462 pages
...unpatented lands, commonly called the crown lands, for defraying the expences of the war, and for other such public and general purposes. The jurisdiction ought...to the present revolution, ought now to belong to the Congress, in trust for the use and benefit of the United States. They have fought and bled for... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1908 - 462 pages
...unpatented lands, commonly called the crown lands, for defraying the expences of the war, and for other such public and general purposes. The jurisdiction ought...to the present revolution, ought now to belong to the Congress, in trust for the use and benefit of the United States. They have fought and bled for... | |
 | New England - 1910 - 560 pages
...commonly called the crown lands, for defraying the expenses of the war, and for such other publick and general purposes. The jurisdiction ought in every...to the present revolution, ought now to belong to the Congress, in trust for the use and benefit of the United States. They have fought and bled for... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 990 pages
...that the Crown lands should be sold by Congress for defraying the expenses of the war, admits that, 'The jurisdiction ought, in every instance, to belong...determined limits of which such lands may be seated.' Delaware also had a keen sense of the common interest of all the States in the sale of the unoccupied... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1855 - 498 pages
...be expended for the common benefit of all. " Reason and justice," said the Assembly of New Jersey, " must decide that the property which existed in the...previous to the present Revolution ought now to belong to the Congress, in trust for the use and benefit of the United States. They have fought and bled for... | |
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The jurisdiction ought in every instance to belong to the respective states within the charter or determined limits of which such lands may be seated; but reason and justice must decide, that the property which existed in the crown of Great Britain, previous... 
