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The Ordinance of 1785 specified the manner in which land would be distributed in the Territory, favoring sale in small parcels to settlers who would work their own farms.

The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the new territory north of the Ohio River, but did not end it for those slaves held by settlers already in the territory.

Their proposals for the governance of the territory led to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787, which would guide the Northwest Territory until the establishment of states that it called for.

Illinois, a free state, had been free as a territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and had prohibited slavery in its constitution in 1819 when it was admitted as a state.

Secondly, the Enabling Act made the Northwest Ordinance applicable in the territory, which also prohibited slavery.

The first European settlers to the land that would become Lowell arrived in the late 18th century after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance opened the territory for settlement.

The University of Ohio was founded earlier elsewhere in the territory, on land reserved for public education under the Northwest Ordinance.

The Ordinance purported to be not merely legislation that could later be amended by Congress, but rather " the following articles shall be considered as Articles of compact between the original States and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent ...."

Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1784 was the first organization of the territory by the United States.

The territory north of the Ordinance Line became part of Indiana Territory in 1803 as a reorganized Wayne County ; the remainder reverted to unorganized status after Ohio statehood.

Toward the middle of his term, Blount began implementing the steps stipulated in the Northwest Ordinance for a territory to gain statehood.

A Sedition Ordinance had existed in the territory since 1970, which was subsequently consolidated into the Crime Ordinance in 1972.

Jefferson's recommendations became the basis for the Ordinance of 1784, which established that new states equal in all respects to the founding thirteen would be erected in the territory, that they would forever be a part of the United States, and that their governments would be republican in form.

The Land Ordinance of 1785 would go further by establishing a procedure for land sales in the new territory, but the Ohio River remained an effective boundary between the United States and the Northwest tribes for a few more years.

Slavery was forbidden in the territory under the Northwest Ordinance, but British and French residents were permitted to retain possession of slaves already owned at the time the territory became organized.

Under the Northwest Ordinance, a territory could apply for statehood once it had surpassed 60, 000 inhabitants.

It was the first new territory created from lands of the Northwest Territory, which had been organized in 1787 by the Northwest Ordinance.

After the Revolution and resolution of state claims to the territory, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the boundaries of the Northwest Territory, which was larger than the Ohio Country.

The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the territory, but it did not free slaves who had already been taken into the territory by their masters.

The Ordinance acknowledged that the territory, as in the Jeffersonian proposal, would eventually be organized as future states of the Union, to be admitted when a jurisdiction achieved sufficient population to support a government.

* the Official Languages Ordinance passed in Hong Kong in 1974 to bring the English and Chinese languages to equal status as official languages of the territory

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

In August 1901, the Second Tramway Bill was introduced and passed into law as the 1902 Tramway Ordinance.

Trade unions and / or collective bargaining were outlawed from no later than the middle of the 14th century when the Ordinance of Labourers was enacted in the Kingdom of England.

The Militia Ordinance was passed on 5 March by Parliament which gave Parliament control of the local militia called Trained Bands.

Malden was reserved as a wildlife sanctuary and closed area, and was officially designated as the " Malden Island Wildlife Sanctuary ", on 29 May 1975, under the 1975 Wildlife Conservation Ordinance.

On 25 March 1845 the Militia Ordinance was passed into law.

On 28 October 1846, with the passing of the Armed Constabulary Ordinance in 1846, a fresh call was made by Mr Donnelly of the Legislature to do away with the Militia because of its expense.

At Nazareth there lived various vendors of antiquities who got ancient material from several places .” C. Kopp is more definite: " It must be accepted with certainty that Ordinance of Caesar … was brought to the Nazareth market by outside merchants.

Plea bargain as a formal legal provision was introduced in Pakistan by the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, an anti-corruption law.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

When the results of the survey were made public, Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass was unhappy, since it was not based on the Congressionally approved Ordinance Line.

The Fulton survey was based upon the original 1787 Ordinance Line, and after measuring the line eastward from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, it found the Ohio boundary to be south of the mouth of the Maumee River.

The first special White Cane Ordinance was passed in December 1930 in Peoria, Illinois granting blind pedestrians protections and the right-of-way while carrying a white cane.

The Citizenship ( Amendment ) Ordinance 2005 was promulgated by the President of India and came into force on 28 June 2005.

After some initial problems and discontent, it was agreed through the Ordinance of the Staple of 1353 that the new customs should be approved by parliament, though in reality they became permanent.

How to formally include these new frontier areas into the nation was an important issue in the Continental Congress of the 1780s and was partly resolved by the Northwest Ordinance ( 1787 ).

The Alsnö stadga ( Ordinance of Alsnö ) from 1279 or 1280 also gave anyone who undertook to provide the Crown with a mounted warrior ( knight ) and a warhorse, the freedom from certain taxes ( such a liberty was called frälse in Swedish ).

Its membership stood around 13, 000 by 1920, and it was granted legal status in 1921 under the Trades Union Ordinance.

In November 1988, the Han Tomb was declared as a gazetted monument by the Hong Kong Government, and it is now protected and preserved permanently under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.

On 19 December 1644 the first Self-Denying Ordinance was approved by the House of Commons.

The next day a revised Self-Denying Ordinance was approved by the House of Lords.