20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . at) was tlien known as the North-west Territory, proved one of the mostpowerful influences which kept the newborn nation from dropping to pieces, anda fruitful means to assist in clearing oflpthe burden of debt. Tlie four states, Massachusetts, Con-necticut, New York and Virginia, whichclaimed all the land north of the Ohio Riv-er, west to the Mississippi, agreed to giveit to the United States, to be disposed offor the common good, and in 1787 Con-gress passed an ordinance for the govern-ment of this ter
20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . at) was tlien known as the North-west Territory, proved one of the mostpowerful influences which kept the newborn nation from dropping to pieces, anda fruitful means to assist in clearing oflpthe burden of debt. Tlie four states, Massachusetts, Con-necticut, New York and Virginia, whichclaimed all the land north of the Ohio Riv-er, west to the Mississippi, agreed to giveit to the United States, to be disposed offor the common good, and in 1787 Con-gress passed an ordinance for the govern-ment of this territory, and also for estab-lishing a definite method for the surveyand sale of these lands, which were nowdesignated as Public Lands. The plan arranged by James Mans-field, surveyor general of the NorthwestTerritory, adopted by Congress in 1802,and called the United States RectangularSurvey, may be briefly described as fol-lows : First, a north and south line is runthrough the tract determined upon to besurveyed. This line begins at some prom-inent or easily distinguished point, and is.
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