...May the feventeenth, 1796 : GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United Statet. \ CHAPTER XXIX. An Aft providing for the Sale of the Lands of the United States, in the Territory north-ivejl of the River Ohio, and above the Mouth of Kentucky River. Sec. i . TJ E it enabled by the...

...the collection of the duties on impost and tonnage." 55. An act to amend an act, intitled, "An act for the sale of the lands of the United States in...north-west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river." 56. An act to make appropriations for the navy of the United States during the year...

...the fees in like case provided by the act, entitled, " An act to amend the aft, entitled, ' An act providing for the sale of the lands of the united states, in trft territory of the united states northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river,"...

...public monies. — and of his two clerks. Compensacommis * "An act to amend the act intituled, an act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river:" Provided always, That the lands which...

...regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions as are or may be provided by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Mississippi territory ; and patents shall be obtained for lands sold in said district, in the same...

...regulations, for the same price and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Mississippi territory. And patents shall be obtained for all lands, granted or sold, in the territory...

...clearer view of the specific questions on which you ask my opinion. By the original act of May 18, 1796, "providing for the sale of the lands of the United...northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," it was enacted " that a salt spring lying upon a creek which empties into the Scioto...

...discovered in the Indiana Territory for a term not exceeding five years." The act of 1796, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory nonhwest of the Ohio," directs every surveyor to note in his field-book the true situations of all...

...the provisions of the 9th section of the act of Congress, of the 10th May, 1800, entitled, "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory of the Unitod States, northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river." A rule to show...

...Beecher, presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of Ohio, praying that a land office, for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the said state, may be established at Piqua* town, in the state aforesaid. Ordered, That the said petitions...