A supplement to an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory["]
Subtitle: whereas it appears inconvenient to pursue the mode prescribed in the land ordinance passed the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for disposing of the land therein directed to be surveyed, by allotting certain proportions thereof to the several states ...
Contributors: United States.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Bounties, Military -- United States.; Surveying -- Public lands -- Northwest, Old.; Land settlement -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Notes: Evans 21533
Journals of the Continental Congress, 600
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Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 34, p. 631. Recorded in Dunlap's account book. Cf. JCC 600.
LC copy annotated in pencil on p. [2]: This is the report of Mch 19, 1788 ... Annotated in ink: Supplement to the Land Ordinance No. 1 acted on July 9, 1788.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.