...pre-emption of the soil." This act, also, declared, that the territory thus ceded, " should be and enure for the use and benefit of such of the United States, as should become members of the federal alliance of the said states, and for no other use or purpose whatever."...

...so ceded to the United States, and not reserved for, or appropriated to, any 01 the before mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers...soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become,...

...northwestern territory to the United States, upon the express condition, that the lands, so ceded, should be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as had become or should become members of the confederation, Virginia inclusive, and should be faithfully...

...so ceded to the United States, and not reserved for, or appropriated to, any of the before mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers...soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become,...

...to have had the same object in making cessions, for they both declare that the ceded lands should be right to alter it, cither by interference, construc States as had or should become members of the confederation, " according to their usual respective...

...title assumed to cover the whole northwestern territory, that the lands so ceded shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the...members of the confederation, or federal alliance of said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their respective proportion in the general charge and...

...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...

...so ceded to the United States, and not reserved £or or appropriated to any of the bcforcmcntioncd purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers...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,...

...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...