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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
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Books/Printed Material |
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Author | Lee, Richard Henry |
Organization | United States. Continental Congress. |
Organization | United States. |
Spatial Coverage | United States |
Temporal Coverage | 1785 |
Description | 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 ESTC W38445 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy. Scanned card stamped as no. 2451. LAC sba 2021-04-07. Scanned card stamped as no. 2530 and 2531. LAC sba 2021-04-21. LAC sba 2021-04-07 update (1 card) LAC sba 2021-04-21 update (2 cards) |
Language | English |
Publisher Place | New York |
Part of Series | Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera Rare Book and Special Collections Division American Memory Catalog Continental Congress Broadside Collection (library of Congress) |
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Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Land Settlement Law and Legislation Old Northwest Public Lands Statehood (american Politics) Surveying United States |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Statehood (American politics) |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Surveying--Public lands--Northwest, Old |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Land settlement--Law and legislation--United States |
Subject Domain (in LCC) | Cont Cong no. 133 |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Book |