 | Massachusetts - Law - 1784 - 1046 pages
...laying into distinct States the Western Territory ceded to the Union by the individual States: also an Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory; and an Act declaring the election of a Surveyor for each of the nine States mentioned in... | |
 | United States - Land tenure - 1811 - 480 pages
...entitled to, agreeably to the said deed of session and act of Congress accepting the same. Whereas, the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory directs, "That the geographer and surveyors shall pay the utITWi™*'' most attention to... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1022 pages
...That the board of treasury advance Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, 6000 dollars, for which he is to be accountable, to be applied by...ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. 536 JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, 1785.' JHatsachtuftts, Mr. Holten, King, ay? ay 5 *^ Maryland,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...and Pettit, The next topic of crimination against our forefathers was a clause originally inserted in " Ì V Fi8 B2 z ғ sS O ] R} Qu C n 0 ; Ѯ _ ) }B &[) A 8 1'iiintry, when it was reported by a committee, in 1785, und which prohibited the sale, by the public... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1843 - 482 pages
...nations of Indians.f XXI.— On the 20th of May, 1785, the Congress of the United States passed " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." J XXII. — By an order of Congress, of the 15th of June, 1785, the following proclamation... | |
 | Commerce - 1844 - 604 pages
...lands in that territory; and those in Wisconsin and Iowa under the act of 20th May, 1785, entitled " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." t Report of Hon. William Cost Johnson. Acres & l00ths. Acres & l00thi. Acres & l00ths.... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Indians of North America - 1846 - 642 pages
...government about to be called into existence. The report closed as follows : The committee observe, in the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory of the 20th of May, 1785, the following section, which, so far as respects the subject of... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaut'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... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaut'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... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 440 pages
...designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20, 1785, entitled " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." The meaning is here geographical, and not political; for no government was established... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
