 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 sider
...St. Vrain, now John Smith, T. Renaut'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... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 440 sider
...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... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 430 sider
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 814 sider
...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... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 sider
...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... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 602 sider
...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 bj Congress, and became the foundation of the existing system. A corps of... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 562 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 536 sider
...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... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 798 sider
...designation, and it is thus called in an act of the old Congress passed May 20th, 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... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 sider
...eighty-five, seems, in its very title, to show the unsettled state of public opinion. It was entitled "an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory." It provided, that a Surveyor be appointed by Congress, or a committee of States from each... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
