Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-02-08
The toAoSOing RESOLUTIONS.
Soc. hd0e passed 6ott Houses OF
fhe LEGISLATURE of YIirpinfa.


[, The committee to whom was refer
red resolution respecting the claim
OF the Virginia officers and soldiers
OF the late continental and state lines
and such part of the Governors let.
ter as rria'e s 10 that subject, have ac-
lcording to order, had the same un DEF
consideration, and agreed to the fol-
lowing report
Whereas, The Congress OF the II.
States, dill, by an act passed en- the
twenty third day. Of March Que thou
sand eight hundrcd and four, eteclalr
and enact shat the line run under tie
direction of the surveyor general sot
the United States, from the source of
he Little Miami, towards the sou.cs
or the Sciolo, and which lands On the
east, the surveys of the lands of the
United States, shall, together with its
course continued 10 the Scioto river be
considered and held as the western
boundary line, north of the source of
tle ht;ls Miami ofthe territory reser.
yed by The state Of Virginia, between
ne Little Miami and Scioto rivers
Tor the use of the Officers and Sold.
erS Of the continental line Of thar
state, provided, that he state of Vr-
glnia shall within two years after the
passage OF this act recognize such line
as the boundary of the said terrific
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And whereas the General Assem-
oily OF this State have passed no act
recognizing the line run as ators
said
And whereas it is important to the
Officers and Soldiers of the con,ineu-
'ai line of this state, as well as to the
United States, that line separating.
the said reserved territory, from the
adjacent lands of the United States
should be accurately run according to.
the true intent and meaning of The
deed OF cesion made BY the commits.
sioners of this State to the u. States.
On the first of March, one thousana
sev.n hpndred and eighty four, of the
errItory north west Of the Ohio
Resolved, that the Senators repre-
senting this State in the Congress OF
the United States be instructed, and
that the Delegates from dis State in
the House of REPRESENTATIVES be
requested to adopt such measures
IS to them may appear most expedi-
rnt TO procure line TO BIZ run ac-
cording to the true intent and mean
ing OF the deed of cession aforesaid,
by Commissioners duly empow cred
to act on the part of the United States
JOIN; ~ with an equal humber of com.
missloners 10 be appointed on the part
OF this Commonwealth.
Whereas the General Assembly OF
this commonwealth on the second day
OF January, in the year one thousand se-
ven hundred and eighty one, did by 2
resolution declare their intention to
cede to the Congress OF the United
States tor The general benefit of the
U"len, the territory belonging 10 this
commonwealth, living north west OF
the OHIO river; on certain conditions
expressed in the said resolution ono
OF which conditions was in the words
Following to wiz, {: " That in case tn +
quantity Of good lands Of the soutb
east side If the Ohio upon the waters
OF Cumberland river and the Green
river, and the Tennessee river. which
have been reserved by law for the
Virginia troops on contin, ntal es,a-
blishment, and upon their own ssa,e
establishment, should (from the North
Carolina line, bearing in further upon
the Cumberland lands than was exrec-
ted) prove insufficient for their legal
bounties, the deficiency shall be made
up to the said troops in good lands to
De laid off between the rivers Scioso
and Little Miami on the north west
side OF the river Ohio in such pro-
portions as have been engaged to them
by the laws Of Virginia -
And whereas a committee Of the
Congress of the Unitrd States 10
whom the said resolution was refer
red, did report that the above recitsd
condition, na0ed in their report {" the
18TH condition. was reasonable, and
ought to be accehed to by Congress.
and the same was accordingly apresc
to rs one of the conditions on which
the proposed cession was TO be accep
ted
Add whereas it appears that tho
said commiffee in stating the SAID
fifth condition, which ;hcy undertake