 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1858 - 914 pages
...fund, in the rame tpirit in which Mr. Jay, yielding to the .1 r • office. He found that the capital consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original purchasers of the Western Reserve, and the substituted securities which had been accepted in their stead. These securities had in the course... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 660 pages
...complete statement on this point. Such a statement was made, not long after the death of Mr. Hillhousr, by the late Hon. Roger Minott Sherman, in a paper...insolvency, and the many other changes to which human affairs are subject, its actual value fell far short of its nominal amount. The interest had fallen... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 656 pages
...complete statement on this point. Such a statement was made, not long after the death of Mr. Hillhousp, by the late Hon. Roger Minott Sherman, in a paper...great proportion rested on mere personal security, and ill the course of nearly twenty years, by death, insolvency, and the many other changes to which human... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 736 pages
...people a serious apprehension that in a few years it would become comparatively useless, if not ntterly extinct. It consisted chiefly of the debts due from...Reserve, and those substituted securities which had been aecepted in their stead. A great proportion rested on mere personal security, and in the course of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 686 pages
...1810, "had so diminished in value as to excite in the minds of the people a serious apprehension thnt in a few years it would become comparatively useless,...extinct. It consisted chiefly of the debts due from the originel purchasers of the Western Reserve, and those substituted securities which had been accepted... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 544 pages
...made the '• South Sea," or Pacific Ocean, her western boundary. This fund, amounting to$l,200,000, consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original...securities which had been accepted in their stead by a board of managers. Reports in 1801 showed a large amount of interest unpaid and portions of the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 540 pages
...made the " South Sea," or Pacific Ocean, her western boundary. This fund, amounting to $1,200,000, consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original...securities which had been accepted in their stead by a board of managers. Reports in 1801 showed a large amount of interest unpaid and portions of the... | |
 | Fletcher Harper Swift - Education - 1911 - 522 pages
...his position in the senate and entered upon the duties of his new office. He found that the capital consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original purchasers of the Western Reserve and the substituted securities which had been accepted in their stead. These securities had in the course... | |
 | Samuel Hart - Connecticut - 1917 - 568 pages
...which made the "South Sea," or Pacific ocean, her western boundary. This fund, amounting to $1,200,000, consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original...securities which had been accepted in their stead by a board of managers. Reports in 1801 showed a large amount of interest unpaid and portions of the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 956 pages
...resigned his post in the Senate and entered on the duties of his new office. He found that the capital consisted chiefly of the debts due from the original purchasers of the Western Reserve and the substituted securities which had been accepted in their stead. These securities had in the course... | |
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Sherman, in a paper which he drew up with the expectation that it would be presented to the legislature. According to that well-considered statement, in which every word was measured with the accuracy so characteristic of the author, the Fund, in 1810,... 