DCHP-3

school township

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a township set aside as school lands.

Quotations

1819
Notice is hereby given that Sealed Proposals will be received at this Office . . . for surveying the School Townships of Hughton and Westminster, in the District of London, the former containing about 27,000 and the latter 62,000 acres of unsurveyed land.
1829
I would suggest an early inquiry in the reservation of what are termed the school Townships, in order to ascertain how far the intention of their original appropriation might now be put In execution.