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: Evans 19326
Bristol B6200
Journals of the Continental Congress, 468
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"This imprint seems to be the re-committed ordinance noted in the Journals of April 14 as read the first time"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 920-921, which dates text as April 12, 1785. Evans incorrectly gives date as May 20, 1785.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 920 (#468), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.