| United States - 1997 - 1198 pages
...may thereafter be made by the legislature. SEC. 9. So soon as there shall be five thousand free 757.9 male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon...to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 2000 - 1220 pages
...execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed, from time to time, as circumstances...alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature. SEC. 9. So soon as there shall be five thousand free 757.9 male inhabitants, of full age, in the district,... | |
| Chris J. Magoc - History - 2002 - 324 pages
...shall proceed from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the districts in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished,...made by the legislature. So soon as there shall be 5,000 free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor,... | |
| T. Alexander Aleinikoff - Law - 2002 - 332 pages
...nordiwest of the Ohio River); see also Northwest Ordinance of 1787, ch. VIII, 1 Stat. 50, 51 (1789): "So soon as there shall be five thousand free male...proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive audiority, with dme and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent... | |
| United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...rank of general officers; all general officers shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress SEC. 9. So soon as there shall be five thousand free male...to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect a representative from their counties or townships to represent them in the... | |
| George Anastaplo - Law - 2006 - 285 pages
...execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof — and he shall proceed from time to time, as circumstances...alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature. [Section 9.] So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district,... | |
| David J. Bodenhamer, Randall T. Shepard - History - 2006 - 404 pages
...necessary for governing the territory, subject to the disapproval of Congress. It also provided that: So soon as there shall be five thousand free male...thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, ... to elect representatives from their counties or townships to represent them in the general assembly... | |
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