An ordinance, &c. : Whereas the safety and tranquility of the frontiers of the United States, do in some measure depend on the maintaining a good correspondence between their citizens and the several nations of Indians in amity with them ...

A draft of An ordinance for the regulation of Indian affairs; reported in Congress on July 26, 1786.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 965 (#546), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
Evans 20071
Journals of the Continental Congress, 546
LC copy annotated to show amendments as reported on August 7, 1786.
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