...means of interstate communication. The act of 1802 for the admission of Ohio to the union provided that five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the state should be applied by the federal government to "laying out and making" public roads...

...lands for school, University and public building purposes, also, salt springs and adjacent lands, and five per cent of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands lying within the State, upon the condition that the State will by a clause in its Constitution,...

...seventy-two sections of land — the sixteenth section in every township for the use of schools — five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands (sold after the first of September, 1819) for purposes of internal improvements — and sixteen...

...towards interest on the 128 bonds issued to the bank of the State of Arkansas. The whole amount of the five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands which accrued to the State of Arkansas, under the compact between the United States and this...

...Mr. Durkee presented a memorial of the legislature of Wisconsin relating to the claim of the State to five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands within its limits ; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed....

...Provided, lhat this grant shall not extend to any salt spring now owned by one or more persons. 5th. Five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the State shall be granted for making public roads and canals. These five propositions are...

...respects. Thus, the compact made with Illinois, the last State admitted before Missouri, provides that five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands within the State, shall be reserved for the purposes following : viz., Two-fifths to be disbursed...