| Charles Fitzroy Bellows, Francis Hodgman - Surveying - 1886 - 490 pages
...Congress A pril 26, 1 785, 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 pints of the townships, respectively, shall be marked by subdivisions into sections of 1... | |
| Ohio - 1895 - 366 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... | |
| Archaeology - 1900 - 368 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... | |
| William Parker Cutler, Julia Perkins Cutler, Ephraim Cutler Dawes - Northwest, Old - 1888 - 518 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 the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then they... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 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 the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then they... | |
| John Martin Vincent - History - 1888 - 514 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,...and others crossing these at right angles, as near iis may be, — "There shall bo reserved the Lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of... | |
| Daniel Carhart - Surveying - 1888 - 528 pages
...April 26, 1785, the ordinance 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 plots of the townships, respectively, shall be marked by subdivisions into sections of 1 mile square,... | |
| George Elliott Howard - Local government - 1889 - 556 pages
...The surveyors . . . shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square,3 by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, as near as may be uc« • . • " The first line, running north and south as aforesaid, shall begin on the River Ohio,... | |
| Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1890 - 422 pages
...William Mitchell, in the American Journal of Science and Arts, second series, Vol. IX, No. 27, May, 1850. that surveyors, as they were respectively qualified,...correctly measured. In the Madison Papers (Vol II, p. 040) we read that the Eastern States favored the plan adopted, while the Southern were " biased in... | |
| Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1890 - 426 pages
...William Mitchell, in the American Journal of Science and Arte, second series, Vol. IX, No. 27, May, I860. that surveyors, as they were respectively qualified,...near as may be. Each township should be subdivided iutu lots of one mile square. This system was not universally approved, for it tended to delay the... | |
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