An Ordinance, 1818, Page 2


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4th. That thirty six sections or one entire township, which shall be designated by the resident of the United States together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature."

And whereas the four foregoing propositions are offered on the condition that this convention shall provide by ordinance, irrevocable, without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under any authority of the state, whether for for state, county or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale. And further that the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military services during the late war, shall while they continue to be held by the patentees or their heirs, remain exempt as aforesaid, from all taxes for the term of three years, from and after the date of the patents respectively; and that all the lands belonging to the citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than lands belonging to persons residing therein.

Therefore this convention on behalf of and by the authority of the people of the state, do accept of the foregoing propositions; and do further ordain and declare, that every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under any authority of the state, whether for state, county, or township, or any purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale. And that the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military services during the late

 

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