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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNINGS textit{OF HIGUEll EDUCATION VINCENNES UNIVERSITY. After the passage of the ordinance of 1787 Congress still hesitated to offer satisfactory terms of land sales to the Ohio Company. Conditions offered in an ordinance, July 19 of that year, provided that the only reservation was to be the lot No. 16, as provided for in the law of 1785. Dr. Cutler insisted upon more favorable terms and he made known to Congress the only conditions upon which the Ohio Company was willing to purchase. By his perseverance and determination he gained for the State of Ohio, by the law of July 23, 1787, two additional townships for the perpetual support of a university. The precedent here established gave Indiana an opportunity to claim a similar donation from Congress, which, it will be seen, she afterwards obtained. Indiana Territory was organized in the year 1800. In 1804, March 26, Congress passed an act entitled, "An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the three land districts, viz, Detroit, Kaskaskia, and Vincenues." In 1805 the Detroit district became the Territory of Michigan; in 1809 Kaskaskia became Illinois, embracing substantially the present States of Illinois and Wisconsin. The act of 1804 provided for the sale of certain lands, " with the exception of the section numbered sixteen, which shall be reserved in each township for the support of schools within the same; also, of an entire township in each of the three described tracts of country or districts to be located by the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of a seminary of learning." On the 10th October, 1806, Albert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Treasury, located township No. 2 south, range 11 east, now in Gibson County, Indiana, for the use-of a seminary of learning, ...

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