...United States, to be, in the language of the grant from Virginia, " held and considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become members of the confederation, or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive,...

...to cover the whole northwestern territory, that the lands so ceded shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation, or federal alliance of said states, Virginia...

...February, 1780, even consented to a release of the unsettled lands in the western part of the state, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as should become mem• bers of the federal alliance ; and to resign the jurisdiction, as well as the right of pre-emption,...

...ceded or relinquished shall be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." And further, that the lands thus ceded shall be "granted, disposed of, and appropriated...

...stipulation, that ' all the lands in the ceded territory, not reserved, should be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation,' &c. ' according to their usual respective...

...within the ceded territory, not reserved for specified purposes, were to be considered a " common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation, or in federal alliance of said States,...

...follows : " All the lands within the territory — • — "—shall be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia...

...form. It is as follows: " All the lands within the territory shall be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia...

...State of New-York made the cession referred to, was, that the lands so ceded " should be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States...of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever," The several States by which cessions were made adopted similar conditions ; and the result...

...cession, thus tendered and accepted, was, that the lands ceded to the United States " shall be and enure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever."...