The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-04

and make over unto the United States in
Congress assembled, for the benefit Of the
said States, all right, title, and claim, as
well of soil as jurisdiction. which this com
monwealth hath to the territory or tract of
country within the limits of the Virginia
charter, situate, lying, and being to the
Northwest of the river Ohio, subject to the
terms and conditions contained in the before
recitcd act of Congress Of the 18th day Of
September last: that is to say, upon condi-
ton that the territory so ceded shall he laid
out and formed into States, containing
suitable extent Of territory, not less thar one
hundred nor more than one hundred
and fifty miles square, or as near
thereto as circumstances viii admit: and
that the States So formed shall be distinct
republican States, and admitted members Of
the Fe lcral Union having the same rights
of sovereignty freedom, and independence,
as the other States.
That the necessary and reasonable expen-
ses incurred by this State in subduing any
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garrisons, and for the defence, or in acquiring
any part of the territory so ceded or relin-
pushed, shall be fully reimbursed by the
United States: and that one commissioner
shall be appointed by Congress, one by this
Commonwealth, and another by those
two commissioners, who, or majority of
them, shall be authorized and empowered to
adjust and liqudate the account of the nee
essary and reasonable expenses incurred by
this State, which they shall judge to be COM
priscd within the intent and meaning of the
thousand seven hundred and eighty respec-
| ting such expenses. That the French and
Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers Of
| the Kaskaskies, st. VincoEts, and the neigh
boring villages, who have professed them
selves citizens Of Virginia, shall have their
possessions and titles confirmed to them,
and be protected in the enjoyment of their
rights and liberties. That quantity not
exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand
acres of land, promised by this State, shall
be allowed and granted to the then Colonel
now General George Rogers Clarke, and TO
the officers and soldiers ofhis regiment, who
marched with him when the post of Kaskas-
| kes and st. Vincents were reduced, and to
the officers and soldiers that have bee sncne
Incorporated into the said regiment, to be
laid off in one tract, the length of which not
to exceed double the breadth, in such place,
on the Northwest side of the Ohio, as ma
jority Of the officers shall choose, and to be
afterwards divided among the said officers
and soldiers in due proportion, according to
the laws of Virginia. That IN case the guam
tity of good land on the Southeast side of
the Ohio, upon the waters Of the Cumber-
! land River, and between the Green river and
Tennessee river, which have been reserved
by law for the Virginia troops upon Cont
mental establishment, should, from the North
Carolina line, bearing in further upon the
Cumberland lands than was expected, prove
insufficient for their legal bounties, the def
cheney should be made up to the said troops
in good lands, to be laid off bet ween the riv-
ers Sciota and Little Miami, on the North
west side of the river Ohio, in such proper
tons as have been engaged to them by the
laws of Virginia That all the lands within
the territory so ceded to the United
States, and not reserved for, or appropriated
to, any of the aforementioned purposes, or
disposed Of in bountes to the officers and
soldiers of the American Army, shall be
considered common fund for the use and
benefit Of such of the United States as have
! become, or shall become, members of the
confederation or federal alliance of the said
States, Virginia inclusive, according to their
usual respective proportions in the general
charge and expenditure, and shall be faith
fully and bona fiide disposed of for that pur-
pose, and for no other use or purpose what
soever: Prorided, that the trust hereby re-
posed in the Delegates of this State shall
not be executed, unless three of them, at
| least, are present in Congress.
! And whereas the said General Assembly,
sand seven hundred and eighty-three, had |
constituted and appointed us, the said Thom- |
as Jefferson, Samuel hardy, Arthur Lee,
| and James Monroe, delegates to represent
the said Commonwealth in Congress for one
year, from the first Monday in November
then next following, which resolution re-
mains in full force no therefore, know We,
! that we, the said Thomas Jefferson, Samuel
| Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe, by
virtue of the power and authority committed
| to US by the act of the said General Assem-
bly, of Virginia before recited, and in the
name and for and on behalf of the said CON-
monwealth, do by these presents convey,
transfer, assign, and make over, unto the
United States in Congress assembled, for
the benefit ofthe said States, Virginia inclu-
sive, all right, title, and claim, as well of
soil as ofjurisdiction, which the said COM
monwealth hath to the territory or tract of
country within the limits of the Virginia
charter, situate, lying, and being to the
Northwest ofthe river Ohio, to and for the
uses and purposes, and on the conditions
fthe said receited act In testimony where
of, we have hereunto subscribed our names
and affixed our seals, in Congress, the-day
of--in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-fo,,r and of the in
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