...United States, " and of right constitutes a common fund for their common use and benefit, and ought to be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Resolved, That we protest against the surrender of this common property of all the states to a portion...

...respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be' faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever." In the act ol cession by North Carolina, the precise language, as above, is also employed,...

...mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, 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...

...respective proportions of the general charge and expenditure; and shall be faithfully and bonafide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatever :" The memorialist respectfully asks that Congress will take under consideration the whole subject-matter...

...was well expressed by Virginia, in her formal act of cession. This provides that these lands '-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...

...ceded a great portion of those lands to the United States, on the express condition that "they should be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of all of them, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure,"...

...virtue of this act to the United States of America, and not appropriated as beforementioned, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the United States of America, North Carolina inclusive, according to their respective and usual proportion...

...them, the act of cession requires that all the lands, not included in other special conditions, "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...

...the act of cession requiring that all the lands, not included in other special conditions, ' 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...

...expressly stipulates, that "all the lands within the Territory, so ceded to the United States, 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...