...forced a public system of survey and sale upon the attention of Congress. On the 20th of May, 1785, " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" was perfected by Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of surveyors —...

...16th of September, 1776. [6.] [Duane's Edition of the Laws of tlie U. 8., vol. 1, page 563.] CHAP. 32. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Surveyors to be appointed, Ac. • • * Army bounty lands to be drawn for : Secretary of War to transmit...

...Bastrop's, St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaul's, Dubuque's. and Chouteau's claims to lands and lead mines. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Boundary lines between Virginia and Kentucky ascertained. Location of Virginia military bounty land....

...by Roberts, from its liability to be so appropriated ? So early as the year 1785, congress passed " an ordinance ! for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory," in which, for the purpose of securing to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental...

...Territory' was its popular designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20th, 1785, entitled 'An ordinance for ascertaining the...signification, proofs of which will be found in an act of April 13th, 1785, in another of May 9th, 1787, and in yet another of May 12th, of the same year, all before...

...Territory' was its popular designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20th, 1785, entitled 'An ordinance for ascertaining the...period. And the proceedings of the old Congress abound witli its use in that signification, proofs of which will be found in an act of April 13th, 1785, in...

...hundred and eighty-five, seems, in its very title, to show the unsettled state of public opinion. It was entitled "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." It provided, that a Surveyor be appointed by Congress, or a committee of States from each State, under...

...entry and settlement of the lands thus purchased by the treaties of Fort Stanwix, and Fort Mclntosh, " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the "Western Territory," was passed by the Congress on the 20th of May, 1785. Its material provisions are these : "A surveyor...

...day of May, in the year of our Lord 1786, did resolve "that the surveyors, .appointed pursuant to the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory, should proceed in the execution thereof, within the east and west lines therein mentioned," and the...

...distorted. The next topic of crimination against our forefathers, was a clause originally inserted in the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western country, when it was reported by a committee, in 1785, and which prohibited the sale, by the public...