 | Ralph D. Gray, Michael A. Morrison - 1994 - 500 pages
...territory who had the power to implement the slavery prohibition were the men least likely to do so. 29 "An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," Act of May 20, 1785, Journals of the Continental Congress, XXVIII, 375-381, quotation, 378. 30 Onuf,... | |
 | John Warfield Simpson - 1999 - 422 pages
...(excluding Alaska), the most extensive area in the world surveyed with a uniform system. Officially titled "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," the Land Ordinance derived from a report drafted a year earlier by Jefferson as the chairperson of... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pages
...contracted to serve someone for a term of years. As such, they were not in "involuntary servitude." 26. "An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," Act of May 20, 1 785, in Ford, Journals of the Continental Congress, 28:375— 381,378. 27. Onuf, "From... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 2002 - 414 pages
...recommended the adoption of such a sysrem, which was passed by Congress on May 20, 1785, under the tirle "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Wesrern Territory." The disposal itself consisred in the division of these lands into six-mile-square... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2003 - 420 pages
...wwwamerisearch net. l-888-USA-WORD 200l) Report ofthe committee including Hugh Williamson. Apr l 4. l 785- An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory. There shall be reserved the Central section of every township for the maintenance of public schools... | |
 | Michael Les Benedict, John F. Winkler - 2004 - 959 pages
...Eugene Roseboom and Francis Weisenburger, A History of Ohio (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1934), 87-95. 7. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory (Land Ordinance of 1785), ch. 32, i Stat. 563 (1785). A full treatment of the background and importance... | |
 | Joseph F. Zimmerman - 2012 - 304 pages
...S.Ct. 612 at 651 (1976), and First National Bank v. Bellotti, 435 US 765, 98 S.Ct. 1407 (1978). 41. "An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory," Journals of the American Congress, from 1774 to 1788 (Washington, DC: 1823), pp. 395-400. See p. 398... | |
 | Martin Brückner - 2006 - 294 pages
...Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency," Representations, no. 24 (Fall 1988), 62; An Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory [Philadelphia, 1785], sect. 4. The rectilinear appearance of the western American landscape did not... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 pages
...Bibles, 1-10; land reserved for Christian Indians, 129, 132-133, 143; Northwest Ordinance, 31, 33-37; Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory (1785), 38, 58-59, 129, 132-133, 143; motion to grant land for religious purposes, 38; resolution endorsing... | |
 | Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher - 2006 - 1918 pages
...a checkerboard of straight lines on the North American landscape west and north of the Ohio River. An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. BE it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the territory ceded by individual States... | |
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An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory. 
