...Gerry being adopted, the report as amended, was agreed to as follows : 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,...

...resolution of Congress, passed April 23d, 1784, as follows, to wit: "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,...

...acted upon by the Congress at that time, embraced all the " western territory." It embraced all the " territory ceded, or to be ceded, by individual States to the United States." — See Journals of Congress, April 23, 1784. If, then, we leave out Kentucky and Tennessee, as being...

...consisting of Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Chase, were from Virginia and Maryland. This plan extended to all " the territory ceded or to be ceded by individual states to the United States." The following proviso was reported by the committee as applicable to all the territory : " that after...

...acted upon by the Congress at that time, embraced all the " western territory." It embraced all the "territory ceded, or to be ceded, by individual states to the United States." — See Journals of Congress, April%3, 1784. If, then, we leave out Kentucky and Tennessee, as being...

...acted upon by the Congress at that time, embraced all the " western territory." It embraced all the "territory ceded, or to be ceded, by individual states to the United States." — See Journals of Congress, April 23, 1784. If, then, we leave out Kentucky and Tennessee, as being...

...majority being from the southern states — his celebrated ordinance for the government of all the territory ceded or to be ceded by individual states to the United States, * * * section 5 of which provided : " That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there should be...

...Maryland, and Mr. Howell of Rhode Island, submitted to Congress a plan for the government of " the territory ceded, or to be ceded, by individual States to the United States," embracing all the territory between the thirtyfirst degree of north latitude, -which was then the southern...

...by their joint consent. 2nd. That his plan of government or ordinance was intended to apply to all territory, ceded or to be ceded by individual States to the United States; while the ordinance passed by Congress confined it to territory previously acquired—that is to the...

...seen in the archives of Congress, in the Department of State at Washington. It provided, "that the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual States to the United States, ' shall be formed into distinct States,' the names of which were given and the boundaries defined;...