 | Silas Farmer - 1884 - Liczba stron: 1084
...benefit of the whole Union ; that the States erected therein should be of suitable extent, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square. After the passage of this law, on March i, 1781, New York released her claims; Virginia, on March 1,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - Liczba stron: 616
...states to the resolution of congress of September 1780, by which no one was to contain less territory than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square. This resolution had controlled the ordinance of April 1784 ; and, as the first step toward a reform,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - Liczba stron: 1088
...Congress, passed Sep[G»le§ k Seaton, print] tembcr 13, 1783, that is to say, " upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed into...of territory, not less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit," &c. These... | |
 | Virgil Anson Lewis - 1889 - Liczba stron: 802
...last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed'into States, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred, nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square or as near thereto as circumstances will admit: and that the... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1889 - Liczba stron: 800
...of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other states. Each state so formed was to contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square; the necessary expenses incurred by any state in acquiring... | |
 | Julia Perkins Cutler - 1890 - Liczba stron: 386
...which she yielded her right to the lands north-west of the Ohio, " that the territory so ceded should be laid out and formed into states containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than 100 nor more than 150 miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit." To this Congress... | |
 | Jay Amos Barrett - 1891 - Liczba stron: 118
...Congress on October 10, 1780, respecting cessions of the western territory, mentions States of " not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square." * This had been repeated by Virginia in her acts nal report provided only for the division of lands... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1892 - Liczba stron: 626
...deed bound Congress to fulfil six important engagements : To lay out the area into States, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square. To make the States republican, and admit them to full membership in the Union. To confirm the land... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - Liczba stron: 1202
...sovereignty, freedom, and independence as other states; that each state which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than onu hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will permit; that the... | |
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September last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed Into states, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square... 
