[TML] Threadjack Counties

[garry.e.ward@worldnet.att.net]

-------------- Original message from Evyn MacDude <infojunky at ceecom.net>: -------------- 


> 
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Garry Ward wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Evyn MacDude" 
> > To: "The Traveller Mailing List" 
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:14 AM 
> > Subject: [TML] Threadjack Counties 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:59 PM, domhanai at juno.com wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> With respect, Indiana county sizes are not typical; they are 
> >>> constrained by decades of gerrymandering 
> >> 
> >> Nope no Gerrymandering in those counties borders, them is damn near 
> >> plumb straight. 
> >> 
> >>> Northwest Ordinance. 
> >> 
> >> ????? 'splain, please? 
> >> 
> > Act of Congress in the 1780s that laid down the rules as to how the 
> > territory north of the Ohio River, East of the Mississippi and 
> > south of the 
> > Great Lakes was to be settled. It, along with the Land Ordinace of 
> > 1785, set 
> > down that a township was to be 6 miles by 6 miles in size and 
> > divided into 
> > 36 one mile square sections which were the smallest units available 
> > for 
> > sale. 
> 
> That I knew...... 
> 
> > I don't recall any rules about how the townships were to be 
> > assembled into 
> > counties. 
> 
> This is the question. The Act talks about statehood and being a 
> territory 
> not much about the internal arraignment. 
> 
Yep, that was left up to the local political machinery. As long as they met the requirements for statehood, the feds back then didn't care much how they were internally organized, county, parish, shire, district, bordello, whatever they wanted at the local level.

Garry
> > I believe it was superceded by the Homestead Act of 1862, which 
> > applied west 
> > of the Mississippi. 
> 
> Pretty much. then layer on the railroad grants it's gone. 
> 
> Evyn MacDude 
> infojunky at ceecom.net 
> 
> Don’t let the fans touch your assets. 
> Bruce Harlick, 2007 
> 
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