 | 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
...ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory, which is in the words following: An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the territory ceded by individual... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1024 pages
...territory, and the same being gone through, was passed as follows: Congress assembled: Present as yesterday. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Weitern Territory. A surveyor from each state sliall be appointed by Congress, or a committee of the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...Pettit, The next topic of crimination against our forefathers was a clause originally inserted in the were never disturbed in the enjoyment of it, until the late legis- ' lat 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
...Ottawa 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 - 600 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. States & Territories. Acres & l00ths. Acres & l00ihs... | |
 | 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 - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...Bastrop's, 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 - 1851 - 588 pages
...Bastrop's, 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... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
