 | United States. Department of Education - 1868 - 934 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edmund De Schweinitz - 1870 - 760 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 982 páginas
...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 - 1870 - 540 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 970 páginas
...spring from the noble and generous use of our wild lands as a support of common schools. In the first " ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory" Congress enacted that Lot No. 1 6 of every township should be reserved for the maintenance of public... | |
 | Ezra Slocum Carr - 1875 - 480 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1877 - 706 páginas
...which 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 - 1879 - 996 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 556 páginas
...letter has before this got safe to hand. On my being appointed one of the committee for draughting the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory, the president was kind enough to furnish me with an extract of your letter' to him on the subject of the... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
