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Title

  • By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784 : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit ...

Names

  • United States. Continental Congress.
  • Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
  • United States.
  • Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [New York : s.n., 1785]

Headings

  • -  Statehood (American politics)
  • -  Surveying--Public lands--Northwest, Old
  • -  Land settlement--Law and legislation--United States

Notes

  • -  Title from caption and opening lines of text.
  • -  Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 923 (#478), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
  • -  "May 20, 1785. An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory": p. [2-4]. Signed on p. [4]: Richard Henry Lee.
  • -  Evans 19283
  • -  Journals of the Continental Congress, 478
  • -  ESTC W38445
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.
  • -  Scanned card stamped as no. 2451. LAC sba 2021-04-07.
  • -  Scanned card stamped as no. 2530 and 2531. LAC sba 2021-04-21.
  • -  LAC sba 2021-04-07 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC sba 2021-04-21 update (2 cards)

Medium

  • [4] p. ; 36 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Cont Cong no. 133
  • Continental Congress Broadsides Mss. Div

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90898211

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Chicago citation style:

United States Continental Congress, Richard Henry Lee, United States, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. By the United States in Congress assembled.: Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit. [New York: s.n, 1785] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/90898211/.

APA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, Lee, R. H., United States & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1785) By the United States in Congress assembled.: Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit. [New York: s.n] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898211/.

MLA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, et al. By the United States in Congress assembled.: Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit. [New York: s.n, 1785] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90898211/>.