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: King, Rufus, 1755-1827, annotator.; Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819, annotator.; 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: Text dated May 18, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 923.
Imprint from Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 923 (#477). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
LC copy annotated by Rufus King and by an unknown hand, with some changes reflected in the ordinance passed May 20 (cf. JCC 477).
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Bristol B6201
Journals of the Continental Congress, 477