By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784
Subtitle: 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 ...
Contributors: Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.; United States.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Statehood (American politics); Surveying -- Public lands -- Northwest, Old.; Land settlement -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 19283
Journals of the Continental Congress, 478
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.
LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.