Modified Cession of Virginia. 59
Assembly of Virginia before recited, and
in the name, and for and
on behalf of, the said commonwealth, do,
by these presents, con-
vey, transfer, assign, and make over
unto the United States in
Congress assembled, for the benefit of
the said States, Virginia
inclusive, all right, title, and claim,
as well of soil as of jurisdiction,
which the said commonwealth hath to the
territory or tract
of country within the limits of the
Virginia charter, situate, lying,
and being to the northwest of the River
Ohio, to and for the uses
and purposes and on the conditions of
the said recited act.
In testimony whereof, We have hereunto subscribed our names
and affixed our seals, in Congress, the
1st day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1784, and of the
Independence of the United
States the eighth.
MODIFIED CESSION OF VIRGINIA.
(ACT OF DEC. 30, 1788, 12 V., HEN. ST.
VA., p. 780.)
SECTION 1. Whereas-the United States in
Congress as-
sembled, did on the seventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-six, state certain reasons
showing that a division of the territory
which hath been ceded
to the said United States by this
commonwealth into States, in
conformity to the terms of cession,
should the same be adhered
to, would be attended with many
inconveniences, and did recon-
mend a revision of the act of cession,
so far as to empower Con-
gress to make such division of the said
territory into distinct
and republican states, not more than
five, nor less than three in
number, as the situation of that country
and future circumstances
might require.
And the said United States in Congress
assembled, hath,
in an ordinance for the government of
the territory northwest
of the river Ohio, passed on the
thirteenth of July, one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, declared
the following as one
of the articles of compact between the
original States and the
people and States in the said territory,
viz: (Here the fifth article
of the Ordinance of July 13, 1787, is
recited.)-And it is ex-