...to the United States, and not reserved for or appropriated to any of the before-mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become,...

...reported, it will come into the common treasury, and then the question how it shall be subsequently applied for the use and benefit of such of the United States as compose the confederacy, is one of modus only. Whether the money is disbursed by the general government...

...individually, rather than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a com- i mon fund for the use and benefit of such of the United...members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit of the confederation, but for that of the several...

...than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a common I °IM; for tlte use and benefit of such of the United States as have...members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit of the confederation, but for that of the several...

...to the United States, and nnt reserved for or appropriated to any of the before-mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become,...

...to the United States, and not reserved for or appropriated to any of the before-mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become...

...this is, it is not all. The deed proceeds, and says that all the lands so ceded " shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become members of the Confederation, or Fedcra/ alliance of said states, Virginia inclusive ;" and concludes...

...the ceding States, far from opposing, fully warrant the distribution. That of Virginia ceded the land as " a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United Slates as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said...

...or dispo«ed of in bounties to the officers and sofdiers of the Amerirnn army, ehnll be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States HS have becotne ot shall become, members of the confederation or feder.d alliance of the said Statem,...

...it will come into the common treasury, and then the question, how it shall be subsequently applied for the use and benefit of such of the United States as compose the confederacy, is one of modus only. Whether the money is disbursed by the general government...