 | Raymond Earl Davis, Francis Seeley Foote, William Horace Rayner - Surveying - 1928 - 1098 pages
...corner. The act of Congress of May, 1796, provided for a surveyor general and directed the survey of lands northwest of the Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. Under this law it was provided that the sections be numbered according to the plan in operation at... | |
 | Frank Emerson Clark - Boundaries (Estates). - 1922 - 686 pages
...§ 33. Surveyor-general. — The appointment of a surveyorgeneral and the survey of the lands north of the Ohio river, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river, in which the title of the Indian tribes had been extinguished was provided for by the act of May 18,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of Commerce - Roads - 1961 - 402 pages
...selfpreservation. As early as 1796, when Congress authorized the sale of public lands in the territory northwest of the Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky River, it began to practice its long-governing principle that all navigable waterways shall be deemed to be,... | |
 | Public lands - 1969 - 714 pages
...statute. 27/ is an example; it was originally enacted on May 18, 1796, to provide for survey and sale of lands northwest of the Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky. The bracketed words were originally in place of the emphasized words : d betwee .notion +J '•ft -o... | |
 | Lola Cazier - Government publications - 1976 - 248 pages
...lands south of Tennessee. The duties of this officer were not unlike those of the surveyor general of the lands northwest of the Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. The appointment of lsaac Briggs to this office marked the beginning of the era in which the number... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 510 pages
...18, 1796, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory north-west of the Ohio River, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River," in an act approved May 10, 1800, amendatory of the aforesaid act, and in an act approved February 11,... | |
 | Indiana - Session laws - 1848 - 730 pages
...of every two miles ; and by marking a corner on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile ; the sections shall be numbered, respectively, beginning with the number one in the north east sectico, and proceeding west and east alternately through the township, with progressive... | |
 | Russell Charles Brinker, Roy Minnick - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 1010 pages
...the first public-land surveys were made. On May 18, 1796, Congress provided for the appointment of surveyor general and directed the survey of the lands...Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. By an act of Congress, approved April 25, 1812, all matters connected with the surveying and sale of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1841 - 1400 pages
...the " same terms and conditions as had been, or might be. by law, provided for the lands sold north of the Ohio river, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river." In pursuance of this act, the town of Perrysburg was laid out; and in July, 1817, in pursuance of a... | |
 | United States - 1883 - 832 pages
...of every two miles ; and by marking a corner, on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile; the sections shall be numbered respectively, beginning...number one, in the northeast section, and proceeding weetand east alternately, through the town•hA the trot aBBHta«B»«i *L Ц which вЬдГ he line... | |
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the sections shall be numbered respectively, beginning with the number one in the northeast section, and proceeding west and east alternately, through the township, with progressive numbers till the thirty-sixth be completed. 
