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any hereditary tide That, after the year 1850 of tho
servitude any the said States than in pun.
ment OF crimes, whereof the shall have been duly
convicted TO have been personally guilty
That whatsoever any the said States shall have free
Inhabitants shall then be In OF the least
of original Sates such shall be
admitted by its delegates into the Congress OF the United
states on an equal footing with the said original Sta:os
after which the thirds of the United in
Congress assembled shall be requisite in all those
whereln by The the assent OF nine States
now required PROVIDED, The of nine States to
such admission be obtained according the eleventh
q .he articles OF confederation Until sach admission. by
ther delegates INTO Congress, oil the said States, after
the establishment OF their temporary overnmen,, shall
have authority to keep sitting member in Congress. with
right OF debating but OF voting.
That the tsroy nohhwad the forty. anh degree, tina,
Is to say OF the completion OF oryhve degrees IRON
equator and extending TO the Lake Of the Woods shall
called Sylvania.
degrees that which lies westward OF Lake Michigan shall
DE called Mchgana and that which eastward bereoG
Michigan Huron, ST Clair, and Erie shall bs called Cher
ronesns and shall include of tho peninsula which
may extend above the forty nth degree
OF the territory under the forythird and forty second de-
grees that TO the westward through which the Assenisip
Rock river runs shall be called Assenspa and thar to
the eastward in which the fountains OF the Maskngum
the Mames Of the Ohio the Wabash, the Illinois,
Miami of the Lake, and Sandusky rivers, shall be called
or The territory which lies under the fory., and for
tieh degrees the through which the River Illinois
runs, shall be called Iinoia that next adjoining
eastward aaa,osa ana a ,S on ans s ana Fem
or the territory which lies under the thirty ninth and
thirty degrees TO which shall DO added so much Of
the point OF land within the fork of the Ohio and Msss
spp lies under the thirty seventh degree, that tho
westward within and adjacent to which are the confuen
OF the rivers Wabash, Shaw anee, Ianissec, Ohio. i
nois Misss ppi and Missouri, shall be called Polypox-
mia and that the eastward further up the Ohio other
wise called the Pellspi. shall be called Pelisipia
That preceding articles shall be formed INTO charter
OF compact shall be daily executed by the President Of tho
United Congress assembled, under his hand and
seal of the United States, shall be promulgated, and
shall fundamental constitutions between the hir,
teen original those newly described unaltoabe
by Joint of the United States in Congtes
assembled and OF the particular State within which such
alteration is proposed to be made
This paper is endorsed follows, in a different hand
writing, supposed to be that OF clerk "RepoH-Mr
Jefferson, Mr.. Chase, Mr.. Howell"
WASHINGTON, February 70, 1919.
certify that at the request of my fah@r AMI with tho
permission OF Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State, the fore
going copy Of plan for the temporary goyenmen Of
the Western Territory" inade by from the original
deposited in the State Department among the archives Of
Congress The confederation and that compared tho
copy the original with the assistance OF Lund WASH
ington, IT,, esq, and found it correct. -
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