...before 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...of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or Federal Alliance of the said States." 1 Const, and Charters, 427, 42«....

...territory so ceded to the United States, and not reserved or appropriated for other purposes, should be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of the United States. Charters & Constitutions, 427 428. 432, 433; Claytons, Laws of Georgia, pp. 48-51;...

...covered by the above reservations or by the bounties promised by Congress to the Continental Army " shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such-of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the Confederation or Federal Alliance...

...proceeds thereof disposed of by the United States contrary to the express condition in the deed of cession "shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of stich of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation, or Federal...

...States individually, rather than a preservation of it for common expenditure. The fund itself is to be a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become, members of the confederation or federal alliance, Virginia inclusive. The grant is not for the benefit...

...this is, it is not all. The deed proceeds and says that all the lands so ceded, "shall be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become members of the Confederation, or Federal alliance of said States, Virginia inclusive," and concludes...

...ceded areas, (the current states of Mississippi and Alabama) and that the proceeds from the land sales "be considered as a common Fund, for the Use and Benefit of the United States, Georgia included" (Carter 1937, 142-46). The distribution of the proceeds from the...

...proposed a motion respecting any lands "that may be ceded" to Congress and agreed that such lands would be considered "as a common Fund for the use and benefit...of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation." The territory could be formed into separate states and admitted to the...

...military expenses in the cessions area; and finally, lands not already committed to military bounty grants "shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit" of the confederated states. The logical corollary to this last proposition, which Jones wanted made explicit,...

...as a public domain for the American people. As the Virginia legislature phrased it, the ceded lands "shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit" of all current and future members of the United States." The creation of a public domain endowed both...