The committee consisting of Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Monroe, and Mr. King, appointed to form an ordinance for the compleat arrangement and government of the Indian Department, submit the following to the consideration of Congress
Subtitle: An ordinance for regulating the Indian Department.
Contributors: United States.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.
Other titles: Ordinance for regulating the Indian Department.
Notes: Evans 20060
Journals of the Continental Congress, 541
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A draft of An ordinance for the regulation of Indian affairs; reported in Congress June 28, 1786. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 30, p. 368-372.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 964 (#541), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated with amendments discussed in Congress between June and August 1786, many of which were not incorporated into the final draft.