Northwest Ordinance, someone please correct this sentence:

for those who recognize proper statutory construction

anyone see the problem?

in the old days everything was hand scribe copied. that is to say if you wanted a copy of a document someone had to hand write it.

Anyone catch it?

Lets take this:

"No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States,

whats missing?

"No tax shall be imposed on lands ______________ the property of the United States,

that is improper legal construction and grammar.

Has anyone seen the "true" original?

the irony of this in a tax statement on a founding document

 

It's short for "lands that are the property". It's archaic but grammatically correct.

 

I do not see that?

which flavor of archaic?

 

The old one

 

when someone makes a claim that its archaic then I presume they know what that means and have researched the matter.

Apparently thats not the case here.

Its not proper grammar even if a comma is put after lands, it leaves a gap in the sentence.

 

Exactly .
8,9,10 .

 

Lands and property are completely different.


an equivalent sentence would be:

No tax shall be imposed on oil the oranges of the United States

Apparently no one here is familiar with land law.