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DECISIONS REFERRING TO THE
ORDINANCE.
Wallace v. Parker, 6, Pet. 680; Pollard
v. Hagan; Parmoli
v. First Municipality, 3, How., 212,
589; Jones v. Van Zandt,
5, How., 215; Strader v. Graham, 10,
How., 82; Pennsylvania
v. Wheeling Bridge Company, 18, How.,
421; Bates v. Brown,
5, Wall., 710; Messenger v. Mason, 10,
Wall., 507; Clinton v.
Engelbrecht, 13, Wall., 434; Langdean v.
Hanes, 21, Wall., 521
Packett Company v. Keokuk, 95, U. S.,
80; Spooner v. Mc-
Connell, 1, McLean, 336; Palmer v.
Cuyahoga Co., 3, McLean,
226; Hogg v. Zanesville, etc., Co., 5,
0., 410; Perry v. Tor-
rence, 8, 0., 522; Hutchinson v.
Thompson, 9, 0., 52; Cochran
v. Loring, 17, 0., 409.
DEED OF CESSION FROM VIRGINIA-1784.
To all who shall see these presents, we, Thomas Jefferson,
Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James
Monroe, the underwritten
delegates for the commonwealth of
Virginia in the Congress of
the United States of America, send greeting:
WHEREAS, The General Assembly of the
commonwealth
of Virginia, at their session begun on
the 20th day of October,
1783, passed an act, entitled "An
act to authorize the delegates
of this State in Congress to convey to
the United States in Con-
gress assembled all the right of this
commonwealth to the territory
northwest of the River Ohio, in these
words following, to-wit"
(here follows the act of cession:); and,
WHEREAS, The said General Assembly, by
their resolution
of June 6, 1783, had constituted and
appointed us, the said Thomas
Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and
James Monroe, dele-
gates to represent the said commonwealth
in Congress, for one
year from the first Monday in November
then next following,
which resolution remains in full force:
Now, therefore, know ye, that we, the
said Thomas Jefferson,
Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James
Monroe, by virtue of the
power and authority committed to us by
the act of the said General