...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...

...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...

...Virginia, whose 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 United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation, or federal alliance of said states, Virginia inclusive,...

...bcforcmcntioncd purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and 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, members of t/te ctnfeileration »r federal alliance of tlif...

...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...

...with a stipulation, that ' all the lands in the ceded territory, not reserved, should be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation,' &c. ' according to their usual respective proportions...

...form. It is as follows : " All the lands within the territory — • — "—shall be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive,...

...still more explicit form. It is as follows: " All the lands within the territory shall be considered as a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive,...

...the 1st day of March 1781, on condition that the territory ceded or relinquished shall be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever."...

...the 1st day of March 1781, on condition that the territory ceded or relinquished shall be and inure for the use and benefit of such of the United States as shall become members of the federal alliance of the said States, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever."...