 | John Melville Gould - 1883 - 972 pages
...Congress of May 20, 1785, surveyors were directed to divide the territory, ceded by individual States, into townships of six miles square by lines running...south, and others crossing these at right angles, "unless where the boundaries of the tracts purchased from the Indians rendered the same impracticable."... | |
 | Charles Fitzroy Bellows, Francis Hodgman - 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... | |
 | 1886 - 662 pages
...so-called "Rectangular System" of surveys. According to this system, the Territory was to be divided into townships of six miles square by lines running due north and south, and by other lines crossing the first at right angles. The first line running north and south began on... | |
 | 1895 - 366 pages
...— (Ordinance of May 20th, 1785, iv LUS p. 563.) "The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships...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... | |
 | 1900 - 368 pages
...(Ordinance of May 20th, 1785, iv LUS p. 563.) " The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships...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 Martin Vincent - 1888 - 514 pages
...Ordinance cf May 20, 1785, for aecertaining the moie of dispseing of Lands in the Weotern Territory.] "Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled,...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... | |
 | William Parker Cutler, Julia Perkins Cutler, Ephraim Cutler Dawes - 1888 - 518 pages
...sickness, death, or resignation of any surveyor. " The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said Territory into townships...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
...sickness, death, or resignation of any surveyor. " The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide the said Territory into townships...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... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1888 - 484 pages
...plan of survey : " The surveyors . . . shall proceed to divide the said territory into townships of 6 miles square, by lines running due north and south,...crossing these at right angles, as near as may be. ... "The first line, running north and south as aforesaid shall begin on the River Ohio, at a point... | |
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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... 
