...The disposition of unappropriated lands by the National Government. The ordinance of May 20, 1785, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and the celebrated ordinance of July 13, 1787, for the government of the Northwestern Territory, were...

...Ohio, now sought to provide for the survey and disposal of the same ; and on May 20, 1785, was passed " An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory." This on! i nance provided that a surveyor should be appointed from each State, who should take oath...

...representatives in the House of Representatives of the United States. The committee observed, in the ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of -lands in the western territory of the 20th of May, 1785, the following section, which, so far as respects the subject of schools,...

...contract contained some features that deserve to rank with the provisions of the Ordinance itself. The ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory, adopted May 20, 1785, which directed the survey of the said lands into townships six miles square,...

...settlers, restricted only by the six articles of a compact. On the 20th of May, 1785, Congress passed "An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory." This was dealing with the lands as property. Congress assumed and exercised a right of applying a system...

...settlers, restricted only by the six articles of a compact. On the 20th of May, 1785, Congress passed "An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory." This was dealing with the lands as property. Congress assumed and exercised a right of applying a system...

...AND ITS HISTORY, BY PETER FORCE — ORDINANCE FOR SALE OF LANDS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN TERRITORY — ORDINANCE FOR ASCERTAINING THE MODE OF DISPOSING OF LANDS IN THE WESTERN TERRITORY 407 APPENDIX E. SERMON PREACHED BY DR. CUTLER AT CAMPUS MARTIDS, MARIETTA, NORTH-WEST TERRITORY, AUGUST...

...AND ITS HISTORY, BY PETER FORCE — ORDINANCE FOR SALE OF LANDS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN TERRITORY — ORDINANCE FOR ASCERTAINING THE MODE OF DISPOSING OF LANDS IN THE WESTERN TERRITORY 407 APPENDIX E. SERMON PREACHED BY DR. CUTLER AT CAMPUS MARTIUS, MARIETTA, NORTH-WEST TERRITORY, AUGUST...

...HISTORY, BY PETER FORCK — ORDINANCE FOB SALE OF LANDS IK THE NORTH-WESTERN TERRITORY — ORDINANCB FOR ASCERTAINING THE MODE OF DISPOSING OF LANDS IN THE WESTERN TERRITORY. [Copied from Appendix I of " St. Cluir Papers."] On the first of March, 1784, a committee, consisting...

...Territory. But this proved inoperative, and was repealed three years later. In 1785 Congress adopted an Ordinance for Ascertaining the Mode of Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory, as far as they had been ceded by the States and by the Indian tribes. And July 13, 1787, it adopted...