 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...of 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 the irue meridian, and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 602 pages
...principles upon which surveys are made, are prescribed. By the second section of that act, the lands are to be divided by north and south lines, run according...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square. The corners of the townships are to be marked with progressive numbers from the beginning ; each distance... | |
 | Georgia - Law - 1837 - 1082 pages
...Dintricti laid divided by lines running parallel with the dividing lines of districts, j5,UJ|,0t,acti and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form tracts of of forty-five chains square, containing 202£ acres each, plainly and dis- 202 1-2 a««,... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...of Congress may not be appropriated for satisfying military land bounties, and for other purposes, shall be divided by north and south lines run according...crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of .¿X miles square, unless where the line of the late Indian purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...denomination. The second section of the act of the 18th of May, 1796, chap. 29, directs that the public lands " shall be divided by north and south lines, run according...crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships six miles square, unless 'where the line of the late Indian purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Michigan - 1850 - 134 pages
...18th of May, 1796, requires that the public lands " shall be divided by north and south lines, run by the true meridian, and by others crossing them at...angles, so as to form townships of six miles square." In laying out and' surveying the exterior boundaries of townships, in conformity to this provision... | |
 | 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
...begin 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...of six miles square, unless where the line of the then recent Indian purchase, or of tracts of land theretofore surveyed and patented, or the course... | |
 | 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
...May 18, 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...six miles square, unless where the line of the late Indiana purchase, or of tracts of land heretofore surveyed or patented, or the course of navigable... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 744 pages
...such thing 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
