MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aCont Cong no. 124
051 $aCont Cong no. 124 Copy 2$cAnnotated with changes bringing text into conformity with the April 26 reading.
110 1 $aUnited States.$bContinental Congress.
245 13 $aAn ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory :$bBe it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the territory ceded by individual states to the United States, which has been purchased of the Indian inhabitants, shall be disposed of in the following manner.
260 $a[New York :$bs.n.,$c1785]
300 $a1 sheet ([1] p.) ;$c43 x 27 cm.
500 $a"This imprint seems to be the re-committed ordinance noted in the Journals of April 14 as read the first time"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 920-921, which dates text as April 12, 1785. Evans incorrectly gives date as May 20, 1785.
500 $aImprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 920 (#468), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
510 4 $aEvans$c19326
510 4 $aBristol$cB6200
510 4 $aJournals of the Continental Congress,$c468
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
650 0 $aSurveying$xPublic lands$zNorthwest, Old.
650 0 $aLand settlement$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
710 2 $aContinental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
856 41 $3Copy 1$dbdsdcc$f12401$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.12401
856 41 $3Copy 2$dbdsdcc$f124002$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.124002