...states individually, rather than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the...members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit of the confederation, but for that of the several...

...States individually, rather than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the...members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit of the confederation, but for that of the several...

...than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a common I °IM; for tlte use and benefit of such of the United States as have...members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit of the confederation, but for that of the several...

...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,...

...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...

...this is, it is not all. The deed proceeds, and says that all the lands so ceded " shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become members of the Confederation, or Fedcra/ alliance of said states, Virginia inclusive ;" and concludes...

...or dispo«ed of in bounties to the officers and sofdiers of the Amerirnn army, ehnll be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States HS have becotne ot shall become, members of the confederation or feder.d alliance of the said Statem,...

...the ceding States, far from opposing, fully warrant the distribution. That of Virginia ceded the land 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 or federal alliance of the said...

...clear a negative of •» the latter, as if it had been positively expressed. This common fund to " be for the use and benefit of such of the United States as hare become, or shall become, members of the Confederation or Federal alliance ;" that is, as clear...

...nearly the same in each of these cawsVirginia for example, declared that all the lands so ceded "shallhe considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit...United States, as have become or shall become members ofthf confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inch' sive, according to their...