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title: "Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, what had to happen before public lands could be sold?"  
description: "Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, what had to happen before public lands could be sold?"  
author: "Ramirez rose"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41381/under-the-land-ordinance-of-1785-what-had-to-happen-before-public-lands-could-be-sold  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, what had to happen before public lands could be sold? 

Under the [Land Ordinance](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41857/what-issue-did-the-land-ordinance-of-1785-address) of 1785, what had to happen before [public](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/757/why-main-in-java-is-declared-as-public-static-void-main) lands could be sold?


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