...States to the United States, to be, in the language of the grant from Virginia, " held and considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become members of the confederation, or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according...

...purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United fitatet a* have bi-came, ur shall become, members of t/te ctnfeileration »r federal alliance of tlif...

...iloi_comra9nIu1nl; lars to the state of Georgia, and the grants recognized by the preceding conditions, be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for...

...February, 1780, even consented to a release of the unsettled lands in the western part of the state, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as should become mem• bers of the federal alliance ; and to resign the jurisdiction, as well as the...

...in a still more explicit form. It is as follows : " All the lands within the territory — • — "—shall be considered as a common fund, for the...members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge...

...the same idea in a still more explicit form. It is as follows: " All the lands within the territory shall be considered as a common fund, for the use...members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge...

...States as have become, or shall be159 OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS. 21, 1833.] Public Lands. [SENATEcome, members of the confederation or federal alliance of...charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bann ßde disposed of for that purpose, and for no other purpose whatsoever." Now, ыг, this land,...

...and concluded with a stipulation, that ' all the lands in the ceded territory, not reserved, should be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit...become, or shall become, members of the confederation,' &,c. ' according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall...

...the 1st day of March 1781, on condition that the territory ceded or relinquished shall be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever."...

...the 1st day of March 1781, on condition that the territory ceded or relinquished shall be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever."...