 | United States. Congress. House - 956 pàgines
...designates the form of the locations, further than the appropriation of a certain " quantity of land equal to one-half of five sections in width on each side of the canal;" but 1 think there can be no doubt that it was the intention of Congress to make the grant in... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1831 - 688 pàgines
...the Slute of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding the State in opening the canal, a quantity of land, equal to one-half of five sections in width on each side of the canal. The Committee on the Public Lands, at the last session of Congress, considering the immense... | |
 | Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - 1837 - 868 pàgines
...the act of Congress of the 2d of March, 1837, grants to the State of Indiana, "a quantity of land, equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of said canal, and reserving each alternate section to the United States, to be selected by the commissioner... | |
 | 1839 - 358 pàgines
...the extension of the Miami canal, from Dayton to lake Erie, by the Maumee route, a quantity of land, equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of said canal, between Dayton and the Maumee river, at the mouth of the Auglaize, so far as the same should... | |
 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - 1839 - 356 pàgines
...the extension of the Miami canal, from Dayton to lake Erie, by the Maumee route, a quantity of land, equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of said canal, between Dayton and the Maumee river, at the mouth of the Auglaize, so far as the same should... | |
 | Jacob Burnet - 1847 - 532 pàgines
...the extension of the Miami canal, from Dayton to the Lake, by the Maumee roufe, a quantity of land, equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of the canal, from Dayton to the Maumee river, at the mouth of the Auglaize, so far as the same should be... | |
 | Consul Willshire Butterfield - 1848 - 264 pàgines
...day. On the 4lh of May, 1828, a quantity of land, by an act of Congress, was granted to this state, equal to one-half of five sections in width on each side of the Miami canal, between Dayton and the Maumee river, at the mouth of the Auglaize. so far as the Miami canal should... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 710 pàgines
...aid of the Ohio canals, on condition that they should be completed in seven years, and in addition equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each...should be bound to pay the United States the price of tho land. This condition was subsequently removed, and the State sold tho lands. The lands granted... | |
 | 1849 - 710 pàgines
...aid of the Ohio canals, on condition that they should be completed in seven years, and in addition equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each...to Lake Erie. These two grants were equal to nearly 8QO,000 acres. This was on condition that the canal should be begun in five years, and completed in... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 510 pàgines
...State whatever additional quantity she might be found to be entitled to, "to make up the full quantity equal to one-half of five sections in width on each side of the canal," the Trustees caused the line of the canal from the State line to Terre Haute to be carefully... | |
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Illinois, for the purpose of aiding the said State in opening a canal to unite the waters of the Illinois River with those of Lake Michigan, a quantity of land equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of said canal, and reserving each... 
