...question of the land cessions was yet pending, Congress passed a resolution that the ceded lands should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled or granted according to the manner agreed to in Congress. This was the first resolution as to the disposition...

...particular State, pursuant to the i^ commendation of Congress of the 6th of September last, shall be dispotf of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and forms into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Fedew Union, and have the...

...large a domain, a resolution was adopted a month later declaring that any territory so ceded should be disposed of • for the common benefit of the United States, and should be formed into States of a given area on the same footing with the original thirteen. l In response...

...large a domain, a resolution was adopted a month later, declaring that any territory so ceded should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and should be formed into sovereign republican States, of a given area, on the same footing with the original...

...large a domain, a resolution was adopted a month later declaring that any territory so ceded should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and should be formed into States of a given area on the same footing with the original thirteen.' In response...

...States, and on the loth of October, 1780, that body resolved that any territory thus relinquished should be disposed of for the common benefit of the United...which shall become members of the Federal Union." The four States laying claim to the region northwest of the Ohio, acted upon the recommendation of...

...the same day Congress voted that "the unappropriated lands which may be ceded to the United States shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States." On January 2, 1781, the Virginia legislature passed an act ceding to the United States her claims north...

...as the situation of that country and future circumstances may require ; which States shall hereafter become members of the Federal Union, and have the...of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the original States, in conformity with the resolution of Congress of the 10th of October, 1780." By this...

...central government, to be held as a common possession, solemnly promised that this Territory should be "settled and formed into distinct republican States,...Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty and freedom and independence as the other States." From the beginning of American territorial expansion...

...States by any particular States pursuant to the recommendation of Congress of the 6th day of Sep 'n last shall be disposed of for the common benefit of...settled and formed into distinct Republican States whfch shall become members of the Foederal Union, and have the Same Rights of Sovereignty Freedom and...