 | Massachusetts - Law - 1784 - 1046 pages
...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 that act, the... | |
 | United States - Land tenure - 1811 - 480 pages
...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 the variation... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1022 pages
...28th April, 1784, for the military department. Congress resumed the consideration of the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. A motion was made by Mr. M'Henry, seconded by Mr. Monroe, to strike out the following words in the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...from its liability to be so appropriated9 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... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...between them and the U. States, retarded, for some time, the fulfilment of this pledge. On the twentieth of May, 1785, an ordinance was passed by the congress...the first act of general legislation on the subject. This act may be found in the new edition of the Land Laws, p.34S). Under it, very limited sales were... | |
 | Sir William Gore Ouseley - History - 1832 - 266 pages
...between them and the United States, retarded for some time the fulfilment of this pledge. On the 20th May 1785, an ordinance was passed by the congress...the first act of general legislation on the subject. This act may be found in the new edition of the Land Laws, page 349. Under it very limited sales were... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...pledge. On the twenbetb of May, 1785, an ordinance was pased by the congress of the confederation, f .ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory ; and thiwas the first act of general legislation oo the subject This act may be found in the new edition... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 618 pages
...between them and the U. States, retarded, for some time, the fulfilment of this pledge. On the twentieth of May, 1785, an ordinance was passed by the congress...the first act of general legislation on the subject. This act may be found in the new edition of the Land Laws, p. 349. Under it, very limited sales were... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1843 - 482 pages
...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 was circulated... | |
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An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory... 
