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68 Ohio Arch

68        Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications.

 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name,

and affixed my seal, in the council chamber at Hartford, in the

State of Connecticut, this thirtieth day of May, in the year of

our Lord, one thousand eight hundred, and in the twenty-fourth

year of the independence of the United States.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL (L. S.).

 

 

TERRITORIAL ASSENT TO ALTERATION OF BOUND-

ARY OF TERRITORY OF NORTHWEST.

ACT OF DEC. 21, 1801. FIRST SESSION GENERAL ASSEMBLY

NORTHWEST TERRITORY.

An act declaring the assent of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to

an alteration in the ordinance for the government thereof.

SECTION 1. That as soon as the Congress of the United

States shall declare their assent thereto, the aforesaid ordinance for

the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, done

by the United States in Congress assembled, on the thirteenth

day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred

and eighty-seven, and of their sovereignty and independence the

twelfth, shall be altered so far as the same relates to the boun-

daries of the three States that are first hereafter to be erected

in the said territory, and in the stead thereof, the boundaries of

the said states shall be fixed and established as follows, to wit:

The western State in the said territory shall be bounded by the

Mississippi, the Ohio, and line beginning at a point on the Ohio

river, where the same is intersected by the western boundary of

the land granted to General George Rogers Clark, and the offi-

cers and soldiers of his regiment; thence running directly to

the head of Chickagua River; thence by the said river to Lake

Michigan; thence by a line drawn due north to the territorial

line between the United States and Canada; and by the said ter-

ritorial line to the Lake of the Woods and the Mississippi.

The middle State shall be bounded by the eastern boundary

of the aforesaid western State, by the Ohio River to the mouth

of the Scioto River, by the Scioto River to the Indian boundary

line, as established in the treaty of Greenville; by a direct line