The committee, consisting of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Smith, Mr. Dane and Mr. Henry, appointed to prepare a plan of a temporary government for such districts, or new states, as shall be laid out by the United States, upon the principles of the acts of cession from individual states, and admitted into the confederacy, submit the following report to the consideration of Congress.
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Territories and possessions.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 20058
Journals of the Continental Congress, 556
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 967 (#556), an attribuiton later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated with various amendments submitted by Melancton Smith and others which were rejected on September 29, 1786.