On 7 October 2019, the Need and Desirability for Township establishment on the HB Development was approved in terms of Section 5(5) (a) (i) of the Townships and Division of Land Ordinance (Ordinance No. 11 of 1963), of Namibia as amended. In short, the process for township establishmen...
Ordinance of 1785. The prospect of owning property was enticing to many pioneers who headed west to claim land. This movement in history is called, "Westward Expansion". The Homestead Act of 1862 also increased the population of the United States as immigrants could also lay claim to property...
The Ordinance of 1785 provided for the scientific surveying of the territory’s lands and for a systematic subdivision of them. Land was to be subdivided according to a rectangular grid system. The basic unit of land grant was thetownship, which was a square area measuring six miles on each...
Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the Civil War, including them under the umbrella phra
1.oftenwater rightsThe legal right to use water, especially bodies of water or sources of water adjacent to one's own property or on or from a property belonging to another. 2.NauticalThe right to navigate on particular waters. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth ...
The first measure enacted by the federal government in support of education came when the Continental Congress passed the Ordinance of 1785, which disposed of lands in the Western Territory and reserved section 16 of each congressional township for the support of schools. Two years later, the same...
Define Strepsiceros. Strepsiceros synonyms, Strepsiceros pronunciation, Strepsiceros translation, English dictionary definition of Strepsiceros. Noun 1. Strepsiceros - African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks genus Strepsiceros, genus Tragelap
Learn how the U.S. Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance to outline settlement of the Northwest TerritorySettlement of America's western lands began with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.(more) See all videos for this article The second great westward push carried the frontier across theAlleghenies...