 | Joel Parker - Slavery - 1856 - 92 pages
...cession by Virginia of the territory northwest of the Ohio, required that the territory ceded should be laid out and formed into States containing a suitable extent of territory, &c., " and that the States so formed should be distinct republican States, and admitted members of... | |
 | George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...to the United States should be disposed of for the common benefit, be laid off into States not less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, be formed into republican States, which were admissible into the Union ; and that certain expenses... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - Missouri compromise - 1857 - 208 pages
...for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration." — [Committee Reports, 1 806.] * Fourthly. That the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed into a Stats or States, containing a suitable extent of territory, the inhabitants of which shall enjoy... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...freedom, and independence, as the other States ; that each State which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit: that the necessary... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Military pensions - 1858 - 566 pages
...northwest of the river Ohio, upon the following conditions, viz. : 1. That the territory so ceded should be laid out and formed into States, containing a suitable...extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or .-is near thereto as circumstances will admit ; and that... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Kansas - 1858 - 246 pages
...and declared, as a condition of ihe grant, that the country should be divided into States, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, providing, at the same time, for their admission into the Union. Congress enlarged the size of the... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1859 - 776 pages
...contained in the before recited let of Congress of the 18th day of September last; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be...of territory, not less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit ; and that... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1859 - 692 pages
...the country northwest of the river Ohio. The deed of cession contained the following conditions, viz: "That' the territory so ceded shall be laid out and...of territory, not less- than* one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square; or as near thereto as circumstances will admit; and that the... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...charter, lying and bearing to the northwest of the river Ohio" — which grant was to be made upon the " condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed into States;" and that "the states so formed shall be distinct Republican states, and admitted members of the Federal... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...Charter, lying and bearing to the northwest of the river Ohio " — which grant was to be made upon the "condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed into States;" and that "the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of ihe Federal... | |
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September last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed Into states, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square... 
