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Page 5 - This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown, that they are very cheap instruments of immense national benefits.
Page 4 - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness," will shine down, not only upon them, and around them, but " into their hearts, to give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,
Page 18 - On the 7th of May, 1784, this committee reported "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the western territory, and for other purposes therein mentioned.'-" This ordinance required the public lands to be divided into " hundreds" of ten geographical miles square, and those again to be subdivided into lots of one mile square each, to be numbered from 1 to 100, commencing in the northwestern corner, and continuing from west to east and from east to west consecutively.
Page 1 - A Home Department;" but the body of the act proTides that it shall be called "The Department of the Interior." The title of the act, being the part last adopted in the process of enactment, is believed to express the intention of Congress as to the name, but the language of the act itself being imperative, I felt constrained to conform to it in the adoption of a seal, and in all other official acts. Important duties, requiring much clerical labor, were transferred from the President, and from the...
Page 2 - An Act renewing certain naval pensions, and extending the benefits of existing laws respecting naval pensions to engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers in the navy, and to their widows.
Page 19 - ... and most of this has been caused by fraud, and not by any defect in the system of operations. For the benefit of education, the sixteenth section in each township, or one thirty-sixth part of the public lands, has been set apart for the support of schools. Besides this, large donations have been made by Congress from time to time for colleges, county seats, seats of government, and internal improvements. Full details of these grants and donations, and also of the present condition of the public...
Page 11 - Some legal provision is necessary fiar the protection and disposition of these mines, and it is a matter worthy of much consideration how they should be disposed of so as best to promote the public interest and encourage individual enterprise.