 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 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."*... | |
 | J. H. Hawes - Public lands - 1873 - 234 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,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 416 pages
...Western Territory," and which 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. It further provided that the first line running north and... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - Kalamazoo County (Mich.) - 1880 - 761 pages
...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. ... " The geographer shall designate the townships, or fractional parts <of townships, by numbers,... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Public lands - 1881 - 138 pages
...Congress April 26, 1785, and required the surveyors " to divide the said territory into townships of 7 miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles. * * * The plats of the townships, respectively, shall be marked by subdivisions into sections of 1... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 pages
...river, adjacent to the falls; and the tract was called the " Illinois Grant," or " Clark's Grant." running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles. " The first line running north and south as aforesaid, shall begin on the river Ohio, at a point that... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Local government - 1882 - 564 pages
...following manner: "The surveyors .... 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,— "There shall be reserved the Lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - History - 1883 - 502 pages
...following manner: "The surveyors .... 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, — "There shall be reserved the Lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools... | |
 | Local government - 1883 - 504 pages
...following manner : "The surveyors .... 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,— " There shall be reserved the Lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools... | |
 | John Melville Gould - Riparian rights - 1883 - 972 pages
...surveyors were directed 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... 
