The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-09
*rhe following is copy OF Mr.. Jeiferson's plan
The committee appointed TO prepare plan for the TEN
poary government Of the Western Territory, have agreed

The committee appointed to prepare plan for the TEN
porary Of the Western Territory, have agreed
to the following resOlutons
Resolved That the territory ceded be coded by in
vdnal States the United States Whensoever the same
Offered Tor sale by the United States shall be orned into
distinct Sates bounded in the following manner, nearly
and soutwardly by parallels OF latitude, that each State
shall comprehend from south to morrill, two degrees OF lati
degrees Of equator but any territory norhwardy
OF the forty degree shall make part the State next
below and easwardly and westwardly they shall be
bounded, those the Mississippi by that river side.
aud the meridian of the lowest point OF the rapids OF Ohio
the other and those adjoining the east by The same
meridian their sde and their eastern by the
the western cape the , OF ne
between the Ohio Lake Erie, and Pennsylvania shall be
That the settlers within the territory be purchased
and offered for sale SHALL either their own petition or
appointments of time and place for their free males, of full
age, together for the purpose of establishing tenn
any States that such nevertheless shall
be subject alteration by their ordinary Legislature and to
erect subject like alteration counties townships Tor
the election of members for their leg islatnre
That such temporary government shall only continue IN
Thousand free nhabtants when. giving due proof thereof
to Congress. they sha receive from them authority, with
appointments OF time and place, call convention OF
Representatives establish permanent constitution and
government for themselves Provided That both the tom
pora and permanent governments be established on these
principles their basis THAT they shall forever remain
persons, property and territory. they shall be subject
of the United States in Congress assembled
which the original States shall be so subject g. That they
shall be subject part of the federal debts contracted
be contracted to be apportioned on them by Congress
according the rule and measure by which
apporionmens thereof shall be made on the other state
That their respective shall be in republican
FORMS and shall admit person be citizen who holds
any hereditary title That after the 1890 OF the
Christian era there shall be neither slavery involuntary
servtnde in any of the said States Otherwise than pun
ishmen crimes whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted to have been personally guilty
inhabitants shall then be in any one Oh the sas,
of the thirteen original Sates such Safe shall be
admitted by its delegates into the Congress OF the United
States equal footing with the said original States
after which the thirds of The United States in
Congress assembled shall be requisite in all those cases
Wherein by the confederation the OF nine States Is
now required: PROP dd, The of nine States to
standardization may be obtained according the eleventh
their delegates into Congress, any Of the said Sates after
the establishment, of their temporary government shall
nave nn1y KEEP se.une lhe'hoer III congress- WIN
That the territory nohwaf the forty h degree tina.
il say of the completion of forty five degrees the
equator and extending the Lake of the Woods shall be
called Sylvania.
degrees that which lies westward of Lake Michigan shall
be called Mchgana and that which eastward thereof
Michigan Huron St Clair, and Erie, shall be called Cher
and shall include any part OF the peninsula which
may extend above the forty fllh degree ig
pree ha TO the westward through which the Assem-
or Rock river runs shall be called Assenispia and that
the eastward which the fountains OF the Mnskngum
the two Miames of the Ohio tho Wabash, the Illinois, the
Miami Lake. and Sandusky rivers shall be called
Metropotamia 80.
OF the territory which lies under the forty first and for
teh degrees the WESTERN through which the River Illinois
runs shall be called lnola ha nc,t t aGoan,nk % rns
sylvana, and extending from the ONO to Lake Ere sha
he called Washington. ,
tsyeighh degrees, to which shall be added 10 much OF
point OF land Within the fork OF tho Ohio and Mlsss-
we.xrrd " thin snd adjacent to which are the coniucn-
tho rivers Wabash, Shawanee, Tsnssee, Ohio, Hi