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for their legal bounties, the deficiency
should be made up to the
said troops in good lands, to be laid
off between the rivers Scioto
and Little Miami, on the northwest side
of the Ohio, in such
proportions as have been engaged to them
by the laws of Vir-
ginia. That all the lands within the
territory so ceded to the
United States, and not reserved for or
appropriated to any of
the beforementioned purposes, or
disposed of in bounties to the
officers and soldiers of the American
Army, shall be considered
as a common fund for the use and benefit
of such of the United
States as have become, or shall become
members of the con-
federation or federal alliance of the
said States, Virginia inclu-
sive, according to their usual
respective proportions in the gen-
eral charge and expenditure, and shall
be faithfully and bona fide
disposed of for that purpose, and for no
other use or purpose
whatsoever; Provided, That the trust
hereby reposed in the dele-
gates of this State shall not be
executed unless three of them,
at least, are present in Congress.
CESSION FROM THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
(SEPTEMBER 14, 1786, 1 V. L. U. S., p.
484.)
The delegates from Connecticut having
thereupon proceeded
and executed a deed of cession,
agreeable to the resolution of
26th May last, in the words following:
To all who shall see these presents,
We, William Samuel John-
son and Jonathan Sturges, the
underwritten delegates for the
State of Connecticut in the Congress of
the United States, send
greeting:
WHEREAS, The General Assembly of the
State of Connec-
ticut, on the second Thursday in May, in
the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-six, passed an act in
the following words, viz: "Be it
enacted by the Governor,
Council and Representatives in General
Court assembled, and by
the authority of the same, That the
delegates of this State, or any
two of them, who shall be attending the
Congress of the United
States, be and they are hereby directed,
authorized, and fully
empowered, in the name and behalf of
this State, to make, execute,