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:

Book

Government document

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:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

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].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19283).

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Evans 19283

Contains:

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

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