| William Henry Carman Folsom - 1888 - 870 էջ
...proceeds to the payment of the national debt. The bill, when agreed upon, bore the following title: "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territories northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river;" The bill was approved... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 756 էջ
...legislation on this subject may throw some light on tbe question. By act of Congress of May 18, 1796, " for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio, and above the month of the Kentucky river," it was provided that a salt spring lying upon a creek which... | |
| United States - 1891 - 328 էջ
...by the fifth section of the act approved May ten, eighteen hundred, entitled " An Act to amend the Act entitled ' An Act providing for the Sale of the...the United States in the Territory North-west of the Ohio, and above the Mouth of Kentucky River,' " it was provided that payment for the said lands shall... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1891 - 890 էջ
...under date of August 7, 1877, said : " By the act of Congress, approved May 1, 1796, (1 Stat. 464,) ' providing for the sale of the lands of the United...States in the territory northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky River,' the surveyor general was authorized to prepare plats of... | |
| Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 էջ
...in accordance with the laws of the United States. In pursuance of "An act providing for the sale of lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky liiver,"" enacted by Congress May 18, 179(5, and the acts amendatory... | |
| William Mitchell Gillespie - 1896 - 606 էջ
...courses and distances of the deed or patent according to the magnetic meridian. In 1796 Congress passed an act providing for the sale of the lands of the...States in the territory northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. What is known as the rectangular system of surveys was adopted.... | |
| Francis Hodgman - 1897 - 536 էջ
...quarter-section corners were planted on tl>e lines running from south to north. *No. 21.— An Act to amend the act entitled "An act providing for the sale of the...lands of the United States, in the territory northwest ol the 0hio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky Rlver." 3. The boundary lines of sections, Isee Page... | |
| Horace Fletcher Clark, Charles C. Heltman, Charles F. Consaul - 1897 - 594 էջ
...Urton, 5 Cal. 308; Burdge v. Underwood, 6 Cal. 46; Weimer v. Lowery, 11 Cal. 104. Section 9 of an Act for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the Ohio river and above the mouth of Kentucky river, approved May 18, 1796 (1 Stat. 464-^468), provides:... | |
| William Mitchell Gillespie - 1897 - 618 էջ
...according to the magnetic meridian. In 1796 Congress passed an act providing for the sale of the lauds of the United States in the territory northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. What is known as the rectangular system of surveys was adopted.... | |
| William Henry Egle - 1898 - 224 էջ
...Pittsburgh, for the sale of lands, under the act of Congress, passed May 18, 1796, entitled "An act for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, &c." He died on Montour's Island, now Neville township, Allegheny county, Pa., July 29, 1803,... | |
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