MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aCont Cong no. 133
110 1 $aUnited States.$bContinental Congress.
245 10 $aBy the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784 :$bResolved, 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 ...
260 $a[New York :$bs.n.,$c1785]
300 $a[4] p. ;$c36 cm.
500 $aTitle from caption and opening lines of text.
500 $aImprint 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.
500 $a"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.
510 4 $aEvans$c19283
510 4 $aJournals of the Continental Congress,$c478
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
500 $aLC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.$5DLC
650 0 $aStatehood (American politics)
650 0 $aSurveying$xPublic lands$zNorthwest, Old.
650 0 $aLand settlement$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
700 1 $aLee, Richard Henry,$d1732-1794.
710 12 $aUnited States.$tOrdinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory.$f1785
710 2 $aContinental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
856 41 $dbdsdcc$f13301$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.13301