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...confederation or feder.d alliance of the said Statem, Virginia inclusive, according to their IIKIIH! n^ix,ctive proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bonalide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." The territory conveyed...

...are, or shall become, members of the Confederation or Federal alliance, Virginia inclusive, it adds, " according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure." Now, I assert, if these words were susceptible of a construction that the fund was intended for the...

...have become, or shall become, members of the Confederation, or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective...for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever." In justice to the other States, we ought, perhaps, here to mention that North-Carolina,...

...confederation, or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their annual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona iide disposed of tor that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever.'' Massachusetts, Connecticut,...

...of the proceeds of the sales among them should be made, in the language of the Deeds of Cession, " according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure." One great " use and benefit" to which, with common consent, they were applied, was the extinguishment...

...as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective...purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." The deeds of cession from the other States were expressed in the same terms. The " general charge and...

...considered a common fund for the use and benefit of the confederation or federal alliance of said states, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever" — and inasmuch as it was an unauthorized and illegal appropriation to the individual states,...

...shall become members ofthf confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inch' sive, according to their usual respective proportions in...and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fde disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose wto. ever." The deeds of cession...

...considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of all the United States, to be faithfully and bonn fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. And the statute passed by Virginia authorizing her delegates to execute this deed, and which...