...under the same act. Its important feature, in this connection, was the provision "that there sliall be reserved the lot No. 16 of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within the township. " The same reservation (the term "section" being substituted for "lot" in the act of...

...ordinance its chief interest from the standpoint of education. The exact words of this provision are: "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every...township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township."1 Thus the foundation was laid for the policy of aiding schools by means of land...

...prescribed order.1 But the provision of the land ordinance that gives it present interest is this : " There shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of every township for the maintenance of public schools within the said township." At the time the application of this resolution was very limited, but the principle...

...May'20, 1785, respecting the disposition of the lands in the western territory, it was provided that : There shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of every township for the maintaining of public schools within said township. This is said to have been " a reservation by the...

...fractional part of a township, so many lots of the same numbers as shall be found thereon, for future sale. There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township; also one-third part of all gold, silver, lead and copper mines, to be sold, or otherwise...

...United States out of every township, the four lots being numbered 8, 11, 26, 29 ... for future sale. There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within the said township." *& The adoption by Congress of the plan contained in the ordinance of 1785 cut...

...Congress adopted "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Country." "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16 of every township for the maintenance of public schools within the said township." History of the University of Michigan by Hinsdale and Demmon. p. 18. 'On May 20,...

...purposes by Congress was that made by the continental congress In the ordinance of May 20, 1785, reserving lot no. 16 of every township for the maintenance of public schools within the township. This was an endowment of 640 acres of land for the support and maintenance of schools...

...this or an allied purpose, voted aye." As finally passed on May 20, 1785, the ordinance provided : "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every...township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township."10 As this measure became the model followed in subsequent federal land grants for...

...this or an allied purpose, voted aye.0 As finally passed on May 20, 1785, the ordinance provided : "There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every...township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township."10 As this measure became the model followed in subsequent federal land grants for...