 | Edward S. Casey - Art - 2002 - 414 pages
...recommended the adoption of such a sysrem, which was passed by Congress on May 20, 1785, under the tirle "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Wesrern Territory." The disposal itself consisred in the division of these lands into six-mile-square... | |
 | William J. Federer - History - 2003 - 420 pages
...wwwamerisearch net. l-888-USA-WORD 200l) Report ofthe committee including Hugh Williamson. Apr l 4. l 785- An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory. There shall be reserved the Central section of every township for the maintenance of public schools... | |
 | Michael Les Benedict, John F. Winkler - History - 2004 - 959 pages
...Eugene Roseboom and Francis Weisenburger, A History of Ohio (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1934), 87-95. 7. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory (Land Ordinance of 1785), ch. 32, i Stat. 563 (1785). A full treatment of the background and importance... | |
 | Joseph F. Zimmerman - Political Science - 2012 - 304 pages
...S.Ct. 612 at 651 (1976), and First National Bank v. Bellotti, 435 US 765, 98 S.Ct. 1407 (1978). 41. "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," Journals of the American Congress, from 1774 to 1788 (Washington, DC: 1823), pp. 395-400. See p. 398... | |
 | Martin Brückner - History - 2006 - 294 pages
...Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency," Representations, no. 24 (Fall 1988), 62; An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory [Philadelphia, 1785], sect. 4. The rectilinear appearance of the western American landscape did not... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
