 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1896 - 100 pages
...first applied that system of Government surveys of land, which divided the same into 'townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, and subdividing these into sections of 640 acres each, and these again into quarter-sections, with... | |
 | United States. National Advisory Committee on Education - Education - 1931 - 638 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, and others crossing them at right angles, as near as may be. The plats of the townships, respectively, shall be marked... | |
 | Frank Emerson Clark - Boundaries (Estates). - 1922 - 686 pages
...survey of the "Western Territory" and authorized that territory to 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 was provided therein that the first line running north... | |
 | Lola Cazier - Government publications - 1976 - 248 pages
...provided for in the Land Ordinance of 1785 required that the public land be divided into "townships six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these are right angles." There was no mention in the ordinance of just how they were to travel those straight... | |
 | Cartography - 1982 - 446 pages
...This ordinance also contained the instructions for subdividing this area "... into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles." The point of beginning for these surveys was the intersection of the west line of Pennsylvania with... | |
 | R. Douglas Hurt - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 442 pages
...from the Indians. The ordinance required public lands to be surveyed and divided into townships six miles square. "by lines running due north and south. and others crossing these at right angles." The western boundary of Pennsylvania would provide the first north-south line. while the east-west... | |
 | Andrew R. L. Cayton - History - 1998 - 362 pages
...the l nited States. Together they were to "proceed to divide the said territory into townships of six miles square. by lines running due north and south. and others crossing at right angles. as near as may be. unless where the boundaries of the late lndian purchases may render... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - History - 2000 - 634 pages
...land in the western territory, the Land Ordinance declared, would be divided "into townships of six miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles." A great grid of "Principal Meridians" and "Base Lines" would divide the whole American West into numbered... | |
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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... 
