An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory
Subtitle: Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the territory ceded by individual states to the United States, which has been purchased of the Indian inhabitants, shall be disposed of in the following manner ...
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: 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.
Bristol B6198
Shipton & Mooney 44817
Journals of the Continental Congress, 454
"This ... is in the form in which it passed the 1st reading in 1780"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 917, which date it March 4, 1785.
Imprint suggested by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in v. 29, p. 917 (#454). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
LC copy has annotated text in the hand of  William Samuel Johnson (cf. JCC 454).