| Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 páginas
...lands "that may be ceded" to Congress and agreed that such lands would be considered "as a common Fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States...become or shall become members of the confederation." The territory could be formed into separate states and admitted to the Union on the basis of equality... | |
| Laura Jensen - 2003 - 260 páginas
...the public lands." All lands not reserved for other purposes were to be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States...become, members of the Confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general... | |
| David P. Currie - 2005 - 369 páginas
...and not reserved for, or appropriated to [other purposes] . . ., shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States...become, or shall become members of the confederation ..., according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall... | |
| David P. Currie - 2007 - 341 páginas
...language of the Virginia statute ceding the Northwest Territory to the United States as "a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States...become or shall become, members of the confederation ..." The Territorial Government of the United States, Southern Quarterly Review, Oct 1847 409,417.... | |
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