Land Ordinance

In U.S. land history, there are at least three land ordinances of note:

  • Land Ordinance of 1784
  • Land Ordinance of 1785
  • Land Ordinance of 1796

Famous quotes containing the words land and/or ordinance:

    “A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.
    Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain
    Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Modern dancers are inconvenienced by a local ordinance requiring the passage of visible light between partners.”
    —State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)