 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 716 pages
...ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the North Western Territory, passed 20th May, 1785, declared, " That there should be reserved, the lot No. 16 in every township, for the maintenance of public schools within said township." 1 US Land Laws 852. The fifth section of an act of Congress, entitled an " Act... | |
 | Francis Adams - Education - 1875 - 322 pages
...Section.'" (') This process of reservation began in the earliest days of the Union. In 1785 Congress enacted that there should " be reserved the lot No. 16 in...every township for the maintenance of public schools." (2) In the Acts admitting Oregon and Minnesota to the Union, the 36th section in each township, as... | |
 | J. B. Helwig - 1876 - 378 pages
...the National Constitution, the congress of 1785 reserved in the north-west territory section sixteen "in every township, for the maintenance of public schools." The ordinance of July, 1787, declared as to the same territory, that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 658 pages
...authority to issue the same. It has always been the policy of the government to set aside sec. 1(5 of every towns'hip for the maintenance of public schools. The ordinance of 1787 being the first enactment: Cooper v. Roberts, IS How., 177. This suit was in ejectment for a part of... | |
 | History - 1886 - 662 pages
...per section, or thirty-six dollars per township. The ordinance further directed the reservation of Lot No. 16 in every township for the maintenance of public schools. This provision proved very beneficial to the cause of education. the promise of land bounties made... | |
 | Hubert Wetmore Wells - Education - 1900 - 218 pages
...the leadership of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison and Mr. Dane, and others, it was provided, "There shall be reserved the Lot No. 16 in every Township for the maintenance of schools in said Township." Illinois received under this distribution 985,066 acres, together with 480,0x30... | |
 | Grace Alice Turkington - United States - 1923 - 600 pages
...Congress: 1. The Land Act of 1785 provided for the survey of the Northwest Territory and set aside therein lot No. 16 in every township for "the maintenance of public schools within said township." 2. The ordinance of 1787 declared that "schools and the means of education shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor - Education and state - 1924 - 426 pages
...receiving Federal aid now and has since the very beginning of our history. In 1785 Congress set aside lot No. 16 in every township " for the maintenance of public schools." Since then Congress has repeatedly granted land and money for the encouragement of education. The education... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - Education - 1924 - 792 pages
...receiving Federal aid now and has since the very beginning of our history. In 1785 Congress set aside lot No. 16 in every township "for the maintenance of public schools." Since then Congress has repeatedly granted land and money for the encouragement of education. The education... | |
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Since then Congress has repeatedly granted land and money for the encouragement of education. The education bill would extend this principle. by authorizing further Federal appropriations to be used by the States in the solution of five specific educational... 
