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 ...
Contributors: Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.; Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; Hudson & Goodwin,; United States.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Subjects: Statehood (American politics); Land settlement -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Surveying -- Public lands -- Northwest, Old.
Notes: Bristol B6187
Shipton & Mooney 44805
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Title taken from caption title and opening lines of text.
"May 20, 1785. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory": p. [2-4]. Signed on p. [4]: Done by the United States in Congress assembled, the twentieth day of May [1785] ... Richard Henry Lee, p. Charles Thomson, sec'ry.
Imprint from colophon. Date of publication supplied by Bristol.
Not in Evans.