...and of right constitutes a common fund for their common use and benefit, and ought to be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Resolved, That we protest against the surrender of this common property of all the states...

....e.Uni ted States as have become members of the con-, federation or federal alliance of the said Stales, Virginia inclusive, according to th'eir usual respective...purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." In the act ol cession by North Carolina, the precise language, as above, is also employed, so far as...

...Common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever : Provided, however, that the United States, for the period and until the end of one year...

...Slates as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual...disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or pur-, rUreedele- ^^ wi,atsoeveri Provided, that the trust lx?reby reposed in the delegates of this...

...common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose) and for no other use or purpose whatever : Prvoided however^ Thatihe Provlso United States, for the period and until the: end of one...

...cessions were made by Virginia, namely, that these lands should enure to the benefit of all the States, "according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure." This was the language used during the existence of the confederation, and was at that time entirely...

...condition that "they should be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of all of them, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure," should apply for .1 similar grant, and her application should be refused. Would she not nave a right...

...States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation, or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual...purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.' Here is an express stipulation, and it is the spirit of all the acts of cession. Now, as we have already...

...States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation, or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual...bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no 16 other use or purpose whatsoever." Here is an express stipulation, and it is the spirit of all the...

...their respective and usual proportion in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Fourthly, That the territory so ceded, shall be laid out and formed into a state or states,...