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 ...

Format:

Government document

Microformat

Author/Creator:

United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19283.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land subdivision--Northwest, Old.

Land subdivision.

Statehood (American politics).

United States. Ordinance of 1787.

United States.

Public lands--United States.

Public lands.

Northwest, Old--History--1775-1865.

Northwest, Old.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages ; 37 cm (folio)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1785]

Notes:

Two states noted by the Houghton Library, Harvard University, with and without Charles Thomson's name printed at end.

"An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory."--p. [2-4].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19283).

Cited in:

Evans 19283

Contains:

United States. Continental Congress. Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory.

OCLC:

55822299