...and of right constitutes a common fund for their common use and benefit, and ought to be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Resolved, That we protest against the surrender of this common property of all the states...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be' faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." In the act ol cession by North Carolina, the precise language, as above, is also employed, so far as relates...

...Common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever : Provided, however, that the United States, for the period and until the end of one year...

...common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose) and for no other use or purpose whatever : Prvoided however^ Thatihe Provlso United States, for the period and until the: end of one...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona jrdp disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." The inducement to these liberal cessions of territory, was to raise the credit, and strengthen the...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.' Here is an express stipulation, and it is the spirit of all the acts of cession. Now, as we have already...

...faithfully and bona fit be disposed of far that purptK, and for no other ute orpwrpote -aihaueevtr." In whatever point of view, therefore, the public lands are considered, whether as acquirer! by purchase, conquest, or cession, they are emphatically the common property oftlie union....

...their respective and usual proportion in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Fourthly, That the territory so ceded, shall be laid out and formed into a state or states,...

...spective proportions in the general charge and expenratio™ diture> and sha" be fr'tMoHy and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. ABpurcha- And therefore that all purchases and deeds from an) fromf Indians Indian or Indians, or from...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure; and shall be faithfully and bonafide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever." The first stipulation, above recited in favour of the states to be formed out of the North...