| Bounties, Military - 1852 - 814 pages
...to the resolution of the 16th of September, 1776. [6.] [Laws of the US, vol. 3, page 563.] CHAP. 32. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Surveyors to be appointed, &c. * * * Army bounty lands to be drawn for: Secretary of War to transmit... | |
| William T. Young - Generals - 1852 - 430 pages
...popular designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20, 1785, entitled " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." The meaning is here geographical, and not political ; for no government was established there till... | |
| William T. Young - 1852 - 432 pages
...popular designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20, 1785, entitled " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." The meaning is here geographical, and not political; for no government was established there till more... | |
| Alpheus Felch - 1846 - 380 pages
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| Bounties, Military - 1854 - 944 pages
...16th of September, 1776. [6.] [Duane's Edition of the Laws of tlie U. 8., vol. 1, page 563.] CHAP. 32. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory. Surveyors to be appointed, Ac. • • * Army bounty lands to be drawn for : Secretary of War to transmit... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 588 pages
...Bastrop's, St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaul'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 bounty land.... | |
| James Wickes Taylor - Ohio - 1854 - 562 pages
...forced a public system of survey and sale upon the attention of Congress. On the 20th of May, 1785, "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" was perfected by Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of surveyors—one... | |
| James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 604 pages
...forced a public system of survey and sale upon the attention of Congress. On the 20th of May, 1785, " an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory" was perfected by Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of surveyors —... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...by Roberts, from its liability to be so appropriated ? 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 establishment,... | |
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