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:

    “When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:12-14.

    “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)