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in said state to after deducting all expenses incident to the same, be applied to shall be applied to the faying out and making public opening roads roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same; such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass: Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions by Congress herein offered, are on the conditions that the convention of the said state shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable, without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by Congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under authority of the state, whether for state, county, township or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years, from and after the day of sale.

to be free from tax for five years.

VII. 74.

3d March, 1803. Tracts of land appropriated for the use of schools in Ohio.

In the United

ry tract.

Sec. 1. The following several tracts of land in the state of Ohio, are hereby appropriated for the use of schools in that state, and shall, together with all the tracts of land heretofore appropriated for that purpose, be vested in the legislature of that state, in trust for the use aforesaid, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatever, that is to say:

First. The following quarter townships in that tract States milita- commonly called the "United States Military Tract," for the use of schools within the same, viz: the first quarter of the third township in the first range, the first quarter of the first township in the fourth range, the fourth quarter of the first township and the third quarter of the fifth township in the fifth range, the second quarter of the third township in the sixth range, the fourth quarter of the second township in the seventh range, the third quarter of the third township in the eighth range, the first quarter of the first township and the first quarter of the third township in the ninth range, the third of the first township in the tenth range, the first and fourth quarters of the third township in the eleventh range, the fourth quarter of the fourth township in the twelfth range, the second and third quarters of the fourth township in the fif.

teenth range, the third quarter of the seventh township in the sixteenth range, and the first quarter of the sixth township and third quarter of the seventh township in the eighteenth range, being the one thirtysixth part of the estimated whole amount of lands within that tract.

tract for

reserve.

Secondly. The following quarter townships in the In the same same tract, for the use of schools, in that tract com- schools in the 'monly called the Connecticut Reserve, viz: the third Connecticut quarter of the ninth township and the fourth quarter of the tenth township in the first range, the first and second quarters of the ninth township in the second range, the second and third quarters of the ninth township in the third range, the first quarter of the ninth township and the fourth quarter of the tenth township in the fourth range, the first quarter of the ninth township in the fifth range, the first and fourth quarters of the ninth township in the sixth range, the first and third quarters of the ninth township in the seventh range, and the fourth quarter of the ninth township in the eighth range.

ry reserva

tion.

Thirdly. So much of that tract commonly called In the Virthe "Virginia Military Reservation," as will amount ginia milita. to one thirty-sixth part of the whole tract, for the use of schools within the same, and to be selected by the legislature of the state of Ohio, out of the unlocated lands in that tract after the warrants issued from the state of Virginia shall have been satisfied; it being however understood, that the donation is not to exceed the whole amount of the abovementioned residue of such unlocated lands, even if it shall fall short of one thirty-sixth part of the said tract.*

in Ohio

Fourthly. One thirty-sixth part of all the lands In those parts of the United States, lying in the state of Ohio, to where the Inwhich the Indian title has not been extinguished, dian title hath which may hereafter be purchased of the Indian not been extribes by the United States; which thirty-sixth part tinguished.

shall consist of the section No. sixteen, in each township, if the said lands shall be surveyed in townships of six miles square, and shall, if the lands be surveyed in a different manner, be designated by lots.

Other lands were, by act of 2d March, 1807, granted in lieu of this thirty-sixth part of the "Virginia Military Reservation."

Appropria. tion for pubthe state of

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Ohio.

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tions agreed to by said state.

Sections for

schools, selection of,

Appropriation for establishing an academy.

Sec. 2. The secretary of the treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of the receivers of public monies of the several land of fices shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Ohio, which, since the thirtieth day of June last, have been, or hereafter may be sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature of the said state to receive the same, which sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the laying out, opening and making roads within the said state, and to no other purpose whatever; and an annual account of the application of the same shall be transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and it is hereby declared, that the payments thus to be made, as well as the several appropriations for schools made by the preceding section, are in conformity with, and in consideration of, the conditions agreed on by the state of Ohio, by the ordinance of the convention of the said state, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November last.

Sec. 3. The sections of land heretofore promised for the use of schools, in lieu of such of the sections, No. 16, as have been otherwise disposed of, shall be selected by the secretary of the treasury, out of the unappropriated reserved sections in the most contiguous townships.

Sec. 4. One compleat township in the sate of Ohio, and district of Cincinnati, or so much of any one compleat township within the same, as may then remain unsold, together with as many adjoining sections as shall have been sold in the said township, so as to make in the whole thirty-six sections, to be located under the direction of the legislature of the said state, on or before the first day of October next, with the register of the land office of Cincinnati, is hereby vested in the legislature of the state of Ohio, for the purpose of establishing an academy, in lieu of the township already granted for the same purpose, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act authorising the

grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his associates:" Provided however, That the same shall revert to the United States, if within five years after the passing of this act, a township shall have been secured for the said purpose, within the boundary of the patent granted by virtue of the abovementioned act, to John Cleves Symmes, and his associates.*

2d March,

schools in the

Sec. 3. Eighteen quarter townships and three IX. 66. sections, to be selected by the secretary of the treasu- 1807. ry, by lot, in that tract of land in the state of Ohio, Approprialately purchased from the Indians, and lying between tion for the tract commonly called the United States military Virginia tract, and the tract commonly called the Connecticut Military Rereserve, are hereby appropriated for the use of schools, servation." in that tract of land in the state aforesaid, commonly called "the Virginia Military Reservation," and vested in the legislature of that state, in trust for the use aforesaid, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatever; which said eighteen quarter townships and three sections are thus appropriated and vested in lieu of the one thirty-sixth part of the tract aforesaid, called "the Virginia Military Reservation," which by a former act had been appropriated and vested as aforesaid, for the use of schools within the same : Provided however, That no quarter townships, including the section number sixteen of such township, shall be selected as aforesaid, for the purpose abovemen. tioned. And provided also, and it is hereby under- Provided the stood and declared, that the said eighteen quarter legislature of townships and three sections, shall be appropriated Ohio accept and vested, for the purposes aforesaid, only on con- lieu of the dition, that the legislature of the state of Ohio shall, former apwithin one year after the passing of this act, pass a propriation. law accepting the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections, for the purposes aforesaid, in lieu of the thirty-sixth part of the tract commonly called "the Virginia Military Reservation," heretofore ap

See under the head of "Special sales-J. C. Symmes," the act of May, 1792, mentioned in this section, and the fifth section of this act of 3d March, 1803.

the same in

propriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same; and releasing to the United States, all their claim, right, title and interest, and all the right, title and interest of the inhabitants of the tract of land last mentioned, to the thirty-sixth part of the said tract heretofore appropriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same. And if the legislature of the said state shall not pass a law as aforesaid, within one year after the passing of this act, the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections shall not be considered and held as appropriated and vested for the purposes aforesaid, but shall be disposed of in the same manner as is or may be provided by law, for the disposal of other public lands in the same tract.*

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VII. 83.

1803.

Land grant-
ed to gene-

ral La Fay

ette.

(9) General La Fayette.

Sec. 4. The secretary of war is hereby authoriz3d March, ed to issue land warrants to major general La Fayette, for eleven thousand five hundred and twenty acres, which shall, at his option, be located, surveyed and patented, in conformity with the provisions of an act, intituled † an act regulating the grants of land appro. priated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen, or which may be received acre for acre, in payment for any of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.

VIII. 61.

27th March,
1804.

Major gene-
ral La Fay

ette authoris-
ed to make
his location

upon public
lands in the
territory of
Orleans.

Sec. 14. Major general La Fayette is hereby authorised and empowered to locate and survey the lands allowed him by the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force

For various donations for seminaries of learning, in the territories of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi and Orleans, see the general provisions, under the head of "Land Districts."

Viz: The act of 1st June, 1796.

Viz The next preceding act.

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