 | William G. W. Lewis - 1857 - 446 pages
...was legislating for a public domain, declared, on the 20th of May, 1785, that one thirty-sixth part of every township should be reserved for the maintenance of public schools within said township. A township, under the United States survey, contained 23,040 acres of land divided... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 660 pages
...it was then decreed that every 16th section of six hundred and forty acres, or one thirty-sixth part of every township, should be reserved "for the maintenance of public schools within said township." Two years later (1787,) the justly fame'd ordinance, which consecrated the North-... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 686 pages
...it was then decreed that every 16th section of six hundred and forty acres, or one thirty-sixth part of every township, should be reserved "for the maintenance of public schools within »aid township." Two years later (1787,) the justly famed ordinance, which consecrated the North-... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - 1861 - 498 pages
...referred to a committee, and passed on the twentieth of May, which provided that the sixteenth section of every township should be reserved " for the maintenance of Public Schools." The celebrated ordinance of seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, which confirmed the provisions of the land... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 970 pages
...ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory" Congress enacted that Lot No. 1 6 of every township should be reserved for the maintenance of public schools within said township. As there are thirty-six lots of C40 acres each in every township, one-thirtysixth... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - 1873 - 138 pages
...regard to the disposal of lands in the western territory, it was provided that section numbered sixteen of every township should be reserved for the maintenance of public schools within such township. The Legislative Council of the Territory, in 1827, provided for the establishment... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - 1873 - 152 pages
...regard to the disposal of lands in the western territory, it was provided that section numbered sixteen of every township should be reserved for the maintenance of public schools within such township. The Legislative Council of the Territory, in 1827, provided for the establishment... | |
 | W. W. Boynton - 1876 - 80 pages
...respecting its common schools. By the ordinance ot Congress, of 1785, it was declared that section 16 of every township should be reserved, for the maintenance of public schools in the township. The ordinance of 1787, reaffirmed the policy thus declared. The provisions of these... | |
 | John Swett - 1876 - 266 pages
...old Congress, referred to a committee, and passed May 20, which provided that the sixteenth section of every township should be reserved " for the maintenance of public Schools." As the results of this noble policy, more than fifty millions of acres of the public lands have been... | |
 | John Swett - 1876 - 272 pages
...old Congress, referred to a committee, and passed May 20, which provided that the sixteenth section of every township should be reserved "for the maintenance of public Schools." As the results of this noble policy, more than fifty millions of acres of the public lands have been... | |
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... necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. 
