...future circumstances may require ; fr"™ Virwhich states shall hereafter become members of the s'nu federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty,...states, in conformity with the resolution of Congress, oi' the tenth of October, 178O. ARTICLE V. Of compact with people and states in North West te Ordinance...

...may become a speedy and sure accession of strength to the confederacy: Resolved, That it be, and it hereby is recommended to the legislature of Virginia,...conformity with the resolution of Congress of the 10th October, 1780. MONDAY, July 10, 1786. Congress assembled: Present. New- Hampshire, Massachusetts, New-York,...

...and westerly of the river Ohio, into distinct republican states, not more than five nor less tlian three, as the situation of that country and future...conformity with the resolution of Congress of the 10th October, 1T80. MONDAY, July 10, 1786. Congress assembled: Present. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, New-York,...

...benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the...rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states : that each state which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory,...

...benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the federal Union, and have the...of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other Slates; "That the said lands shall be granted or settled at such times, and under such regulation",...

...pledge that these lands should be settled and sold, and formed into distinct republican States, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the original States. Shall we not redeem this pledge? How can it be redeemed, but by having these lands surveyed? How can...

...benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the...rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." Afterwards, on the 7th of July, 1786, the subject of " laying out and forming into states,"...

...benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the...rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." Afterwards, on the 7th of July, 1786, the subject of " laying out and forming into states,'"...

...benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct repub-. Jican states, which shall become members of the federal union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedorn and independence, as the other states : that each state which shall be so formed shall contain...

...the people of the northwestern territory, that the new States, carved out of that territory, should have "the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the original States." I shall not now stop to show, that the making of a road by the United States, through the State of...