 | Adolphus Mordecai Hart - Mississippi River Valley - 1853 - 308 pages
...1785, Congress passed a law for surveying a number of townships of six miles square, to be designated by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles. The first north and south line was to begin on the river Ohio, at a point corresponding with the southern... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 604 pages
...Hutchins, Geographer of the United States, and instructed to divide the territory into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, as far as practicable. The first line running north and south was to begin on the Ohio River, at a point... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - Ohio - 1854 - 562 pages
...Hutching, Geographer of the United States, and instructed to divide the territory into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing theseat right angles, as far as practicable. The first line running north and south was to begin on... | |
 | George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...was to be laid off into States, and the lands divided into hundreds, often geographical square miles, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles ; and these hundreds subdivided into lots of one mile square, or eight hundred and fifty acres?1 v... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south,...crossing these at right angles, as near as may be, unless where the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then... | |
 | John Dillon - 1859 - 664 pages
...as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south,...crossing these at right angles, as near as may be, unless where the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indian Removal, 1813-1903 - 1859 - 696 pages
...shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square by lines running du« north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, as near as may be, unless where the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Legislators - 1867 - 590 pages
...ordinance of May 20th, 1785, it was determined that the territory should be divided into townships of six miles square, "by lines running due north and south,...crossing these at right angles, as near as may be, unless," &c. The Act of Congress of the 10th of May, 1800, obviates the difficulty by providing for... | |
 | J. H. Hawes - Public lands - 1868 - 252 pages
..."Western Territory." This ordinance provided that said territory should be divided "into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing them at right angles," as near as might be. run as the southern boundary of the State of Pennsylvania,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...of the 20th of May, 1785, to divide the territory, ceded by individual States, into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, . . . . " unless where the boundaries of the tracts purchased from the Indians rendered the same impracticable."*... | |
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The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles... 
