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Page 36 - The first line, running north and south as aforesaid, shall begin on the river Ohio, at a point that shall be found to be due north from the western termination of a line, which has been run as the southern boundary of the state of Pennsylvania...
Page 36 - The Surveyors as they are respectively qualified shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south and others crossing these at right angles...
Page 36 - Be it Ordained by the United States in Congress assembled That the territory ceded by individual states to the United States which has been purchased of the Indian inhabitants shall be disposed of in the following manner A Surveyor from each State shall be appointed by Congress or a committee of the States, who shall take an oath for the faithful discharge of his duty before the Geographer of the United States, who is hereby empowered and directed to administer the same; and the like oath shall be...
Page 35 - BE IT ORDAINED by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district; subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Page 36 - No. 1 ; the geographer shall personally attend to the running of the first east and west line ; and shall take the latitude of the extremes of the first north and south line, and of the mouths of the principal rivers.
Page 57 - Foot, and now brigadier general in America. Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. With an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run.
Page 36 - The plats of the townships respectively, shall be marked by subdivisions into lots of one mile square or 640 acres, in the same direction as the external lines, and numbered from 1 to 36...
Page 57 - BUSHYRUN. To which are annexed MILITARY PAPERS containing REFLECTIONS on the WAR with the SAVAGES ; a METHOD of forming FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS; some ACCOUNT of the INDIAN COUNTRY ; with a LIST of NATIONS, FIGHTING MEN, TOWNS, DISTANCES, and different ROUTES.
Page 36 - The Geographer, under whose direction the surveyors shall act, shall occasionally form such regulations for their conduct, as he shall deem necessary; and shall have authority to suspend them for misconduct in Office and shall make report of the same to Congress or to the Committee of the States, and he shall make report in case of sickness, death or resignation of any surveyor.