...well as the right or pre-emption of soil, or the right or preunpiion of soil only, shall be and enure 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....

...\ ' f*ni • i , the fa.-teral soldiers oi the American army, shall be considered as alliance, and a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the for no other United States as have become, or shall become ineinUJe' hers of the confederation or federal...

...citizens of her own,) or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered a common fund, for the use and...alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive," &c. Georgia, in her act of cession, declared " that all the land ceded, &e. be considered a common...

...establishment. All the lands within the ceded territory, not reserved for specified purposes, were to be considered a " common fund for the use and benefit...or shall become, members of the confederation, or in federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their several respective proportions...

...there said, that the lands so ceded " shall be considered a common fund, for the use and be. ' nefit of such of the United States as have become, or ' shall become, members of the Confederacy, or Federal ' alliance of the States, Virginia inclusive, according to ' their usual respective...

...plain-and obvious meaning of the act cannot be mistaken. The words which bear upon this question are — " Shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such States, See. according to their usual respective proportion in the general charge and expenditure."...

...limitation mentioned by the committee, (and they are the only ones in tlie deed,) are, that the land ceded shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of all the United States, members of the federal alliance, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed...

...pre-emption of the soil." This act, also, declared, that the territory thus ceded, " should be and enure for the use and benefit of such of the United States, as should become members of the federal alliance of the said states, and for no other use or purpose whatever."...

...before mentioned 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...members of the Confederation or Federal Alliance of the gaid States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usua respective proportions in the general charge...

...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...