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![A supplement to an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory["] : whereas it appears inconvenient to pursue the mode prescribed in the land ordinance passed the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for disposing of the land therein directed to be surveyed, by allotting certain proportions thereof to the several states ...](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvYS1zdXBwbGVtZW50LXRvLWFuLW9yZGluYW5jZS1lbnRpdGxlZC1hbi1vcmRpbmFuY2UtZm9yLWFzY2VydGFpbmluZy10aGUtbW9kZS0xNWMwMTAtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/24/webp "A supplement to an ordinance entitled, \"An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory[\"] : whereas it appears inconvenient to pursue the mode prescribed in the land ordinance passed the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for disposing of the land therein directed to be surveyed, by allotting certain proportions thereof to the several states ...")
Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United States, and the surveyors appointed pursuant to the ordinance of Congress, passed May 20, 1785, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and who have accepted their appointments proceed in the execution of the said Ordinance ...
Summary
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 962 (#531), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
Evans gives title as: On motion of Mr. Dane.
Evans 20070
Journals of the Continental Congress, 531
LC copy annotated to show amendments passed on May 9, 1786.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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Date
01/01/1786
Contributors
United States. Continental Congress.
Dane, Nathan, 1752-1835.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain
