The Educational Significance of the Early Federal Land Ordinances, by Howard Cromwell TaylorTeachers College, Columbia University, 1922 - 138 páginas |
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adopted appointed Army Plan Article authorized Bancroft Board of Treasury Board of Trustees Carrington cent certificates cession chapter Colonel Duer commissioners committee common schools contract Cutler and Sargent Dane dollars an acre early settlers educa enabling act enacted England established favor fund grants for education hundred thousand acres Ibid Illinois importance Indiana inhabitants John Cleve Symmes July July 23 land grants land ordinance legislature letter lots ment Michigan minimum price national government national land Northwest Territory Ohio Company Ohio country Ordinance of 1787 petition Pickering principle provision public lands public schools purpose Putnam religion river sale of lands school lands Scioto Company section sixteen seminaries of learning settlement seven ranges sold Statutes at Large support of schools survey Symmes purchase Timothy Pickering tion tract U. S. Statutes Union United university lands Virginia Virginia Military Reserve Washington West western lands western territory Wisconsin
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Página 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 105 - That section numbered sixteen in every township, and when such section has been sold, or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to the state for the use, of the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools.
Página 14 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township...
Página 75 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 31 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 91 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or hereafter may be, granted by the United States to this State, for the support of schools...
Página 42 - When I drew the ordinance (which passed, a few words excepted, as I originally formed it) I had no idea the states would agree to the sixth article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts of the Eastern states was present, and therefore omitted it in the draft; but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without opposition.
Página 131 - The United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas Isaac Gullett of Butler County, Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States...
Página 18 - These surplus rights being secured, all the surplus lands shall be the common property of the State and disposed of for the common good ; as for laying out roads, building bridges, erecting public buildings, establishing schools and academies, defraying the expenses of government, and other public uses.
Página 78 - ... it being the interest of this Commonwealth always to promote and encourage every design which may tend to the improvement of the mind, and the diffusion of useful knowledge even among its remote citizens, whose situation, in a barbarous neighborhood and a savage intercourse, might otherwise render unfriendly to science...