An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory : Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the territory ceded by individual states to the United States, which has been purchased of the Indian inhabitants, shall be disposed of in the following manner ...

Text dated May 18, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 923.
Imprint from Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 923 (#477). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
Bristol B6201
Journals of the Continental Congress, 477
LC copy annotated by Rufus King and by an unknown hand, with some changes reflected in the ordinance passed May 20 (cf. JCC 477).
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