...and of right constitutes a common fund for their common use and benefit, and ought to be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Resolved, That we protest against the surrender of this common property of all the states...

....e.Uni ted States as have become members of the con-, federation or federal alliance of the said Stales, Virginia inclusive, according to th'eir usual respective...purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." In the act ol cession by North Carolina, the precise language, as above, is also employed, so far as...

...Common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever : Provided, however, that the United States, for the period and until the end of one year...

...American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United Slates as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or pur-, rUreedele- ^^ wi,atsoeveri Provided, that the trust lx?reby reposed in the delegates of this...

...common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose) and for no other use or purpose whatever : Prvoided however^ Thatihe Provlso United States, for the period and until the: end of one...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona jrdp disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." The inducement to these liberal cessions of territory, was to raise the credit, and strengthen the...

...respective proportions, in the general charge and expenditure, ana shall faithfully and bona fide, b* disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. In whatever point of view therefore, the public lands are considered, whether as acquired by purchase,...

...them, the act of cession requiring that all the lands, not included in other special conditions, ' shall be considered as a common fund for the use and...purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.' Here is an express stipulation, and it is the spirit of all the acts of cession. Now, as we have already...

...to them, the act of cession requires that all the lands, not included in other special conditions, "shall be considered as a common fund for the use...bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no 16 other use or purpose whatsoever." Here is an express stipulation, and it is the spirit of all the...

...their respective and usual proportion in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Fourthly, That the territory so ceded, shall be laid out and formed into a state or states,...