...organizing the state of Indiana out of what was known as the Indiana territory. This act provided that five per cent of the net proceeds of the lands lying within said territory shall be reserved for making public roads and canals, of which three-fifths shall be...

...HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years, at any one time. Third. That five per cent, of the net proceeds of the lands lying within such state, and which shall be sold by Congress, from and after the first day of January, one thousand...