 The public lands shall be divided by north ***' and south lines run according to the true meridian, and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square...  The Packard Commercial Arithmetic - Page 53by Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - 1882 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 642 pages
...with the act of 1796, (1 Slat, at large, 464 ; 1 Land Laws, 50,) which required that they should be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the then recent Indian purchase, or of tracts of land theretofore surveyed... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...1796, enacts, "that the part of the said lands which has not been already conveyed," &c., " shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indiana purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented,... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...Congress, may not be, appropriated for satisfying military land bounties, and for other purposes, shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indian purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented,... | |
 | William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 pages
...Congress, may not be, appropriated for satisfying military land bounties, and for other purposes, shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indian purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 744 pages
...as a deflected township line. The act of 18th May, 1796, provides that the public lands " shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square." Land Laws, Part 1, page 50. It is hardly necessary to remark that a square cannot be enclosed by deflected... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky," provided that the lands in said territory " shall be divided by north and south lines run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indian purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented,... | |
 | J. H. Hawes - Public lands - 1868 - 248 pages
...section of said act provided for dividing such lands as had not already been surveyed or disposed of, "by north and south lines run according to the true...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square," etc. It was also provided that "one-half of said townships, taking them alternately, should be subdivided... | |
 | J. H. Hawes - Public lands - 1868 - 252 pages
...section of said act provided for dividing such lands as had not already been surveyed or disposed of, "by north and south lines run according to the true meridian, and by others crossing them at right anglesj so as to form townships of six miles square," etc. It was also provided that "one-half of said... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 598 pages
...made as follows: 1. By north and south lines, run according to the true meridian. 2. By other lines crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square. 3. And that this rule should not be departed from, further than the particular circumstances of interference... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 806 pages
...(Brightley's Dig., US Stats., 493), provided that the public lands northwest of the river Ohio " shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indian purchase, or tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented,... | |
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