 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate - Pennsylvania - 1820 - 880 pages
...divided into thirty -six sections, each a mile square, and containing 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. .Section No. 16, which is always a central...appropriated, (and provision has been made by law for the like appropriation in future surveys), for the support of common school* in each township. In Tenwssee,... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...divided into thirty-six sections, each a mile square, and containg 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. Section No. 16, which is always a central section, has invariably bean appropriated, (and provision has been made by law for the like appropriations in future surveys,)... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - Pennsylvania - 1900 - 1062 pages
...divided into thirty-six sections, each a mile square, and containing 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. Section No. 16, which is always a central...appropriated, (and provision has been made by law for the like appropriation in future surveys), for the support of common schools in each township. In Tennessee,... | |
 | Andrew Ten Brook - Universities and colleges - 1875 - 432 pages
...divided into thirty-six sections, each a mile square and containing 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. Section No. 16, which is always a central...appropriated (and provision has been made by law for like appropriations in future surveys) for the support of common schools in each township. In Tennessee,... | |
 | United States - 1821 - 470 pages
...divided into thirty-six sections, • each a mile square, and containg 640 acres, which ar* designated by numbers. Section No. 16, which is always a central...appropriation of a section in each township for common school», 200,000 acres have been assigned for the endowment of colleges and academies, barge appropriations... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1900 - 1070 pages
...divided into thirty-six sections, each a mile square, and containing 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. Section No. 16, which is always a central section, has invariably been appropriated, tand provision has been made by law for the like appropriation in future surveys), for the support... | |
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The public lands are laid off into townships, six miles square, by lines running with the cardinal points; these townships are then divided into thirty-six sections, each a mile square, and containing 640 acres, which are designated by numbers. Section... 