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Application to Erect the Northwest Ter

Application to Erect the Northwest Ter. into a State.  69

 

drawn from thence to the southwest corner of the Connecticut

Reserve; thence by a line due north to the territorial line, and

by the said territorial line.

The eastern State shall be bounded by the said eastern boun-

dary of the middle State; by the Ohio to the Pennsylvania line;

by the Pennsylvania line to the territorial line, and by the said ter-

ritorial line.

Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be in-

tended to annul or in any way affect the authority of Congress

to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which

lies north of an east line drawn through the southerly bend of

Lake Michigan.

 

APPLICATION TO ERECT THE NORTHWEST TERRI-

TORY INTO A STATE.

(SEVENTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. NO. 156.)

Communicated to the House of Representatives, March 4,1802.

Mr. Giles made the following report:

The committee to whom was referred the census of the

inhabitants of the territory northwest of the Ohio, with instruc-

tions to report "whether any and what, measures ought at this

time be taken, for enabling the people of the said territory to

form a government for themselves, to be admitted into the Union

upon the same terms with the original States"; to whom were

also referred the representation of sundry inhabitants of the said

territory, complaining of an act passed by the Legislature of the

said territory for altering the boundary lines of the State therein

as established by the ordinance of Congress of the 13th of July,

1787, etc., etc.; and other representations praying that provision

may be made for enabling the people of the said territory to form

for themselves a State government, to be admitted into the Union

upon the same footing with the original States, etc.; after having

bestowed on these interesting subjects all the attention their

importance requires, report:

That it appears to your committee, that the ordinance of

the 13th of July, 1787, between the original States and the people

and State within the territory northwest of the river Ohio, con-