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School Lands are land grants established in support of education. Support for public education in the United States predates the constitution; two years before the adoption of the United States Constitution of 1787, the Congress of the Confederation provided support for public schooling by establishing the land grants in the Land Ordinance of May 20, 1785〔 page 17.〕 which granted Section 16 (one square mile) of every township to be used for public education: "There shall be reserved the Lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools within said township."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maggie/ohio-lands/ohl5.html )〕〔 (School lands, page 132 ). (Volume 1 originally published in 1847 as ''Historical Collections of Ohio''.)〕 In the land ordinance, the ''township'' is not a civil township but a surveying unit: a six mile by six mile square, divided into 36 one square mile sections. The one square mile ''Section 16'' is located near the center of the township. (For states surveyed under the federal rectangular system, survey townships and civil townships usually have the same boundaries, but there are many exceptions.)〔 The School Lands are part of the Ohio Lands,〔 page 56.〕 comprising land grants in Ohio from the United States federal government for public schools. According to the ''Official Ohio Lands Book'',〔 "by 1920, 73,155,075 acres of public land had been given by the federal government to the public land states in support of public schooling." In the Land Ordinance of 1785 provision was also made by land grant for higher education (the College Lands). ==References== * School lands, page 562. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「School Lands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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