An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory
Subtitle: Be it ordained by the United States of 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 B6199
Shipton & Mooney 44818
Journals of the Continental Congress, 459
"This imprint is in the form, apparently, in which the ordinance passed the 2d reading"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 918, which give date as March 16, 1785.
Imprint from Journals ofthe Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in v. 29, p. 918 (#459). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
LC copy extensively annotated by Benjamin Bankson, clerk of the secretary's office, bringing it into conformity with the later action of Congress. Cf. JCC, v. 29, p. 918.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.