...fifty thousand dollars to the State of Georgia, and the grants recognised by the preceding conditions, be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the United States, Georgia included, and shall be faithfully disposed of for that purpose, and for...

...hen'in-belore.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 American states as have become, or shall become members of the confederation, or federal alliance of...

...the enjoyment of their rights and liberties ; and that all the land she ceded to the United States should be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the whole, and that they should be disposed of only for the benefit of the whole nation, and for no...

...lands, agreeably to the terms of the deeds of cession, which provide that the lands so ceded, " shall be considered as 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...

...lands, agreeably to the terms of the deeds of cession, which provide that the lands so ceded, " shall be considered as 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...

...expressly to meet this view of the case. Virginia, in the first place, stipulates that it " shall be a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the...become, or shall become, members of the Confederation or federal alliance of said States." Then, to prevent all cavil, she further stipulates, that it shall...

...or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall bo considered aa a common fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States, as have beof moment, owing to the continued remissness of the delegates, was done until the month of April,...

...of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered as a com. man fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States, ns have beof moment, owing to the continued remissness of the delegates, was done until the month of...

...ceding states, far from opposing, fully -warrant the distribution. That of Virginia ceded the land as " a common fund for the use and benefit of such...become, or shall become, members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive." The cession was for the benefit of all...

...reported, it will come into the common treasury, and then the question how it shall be subsequently applied for the use and benefit of such of the United States as compose the confederacy, is one of modus only. Whether the money is disbursed by the general government...