By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784 : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit ...
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Title from caption and opening lines of text.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 923 (#478), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
"May 20, 1785. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory": p. [2-4]. Signed on p. [4]: Richard Henry Lee.
Evans 19283
Journals of the Continental Congress, 478
LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.
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Date
01/01/1785
Contributors
United States. Continental Congress.
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
United States.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress
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