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Excerpt from A Code of Rules or Instructions for the Government of County Surveyors in the Discharge of Their Duties
Congress, on April 30, 1802, passed an act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north west oi the river Ohio, to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes. Vol. 2, p. 173.
Virginia had previously acquired title to the territory north-west of the river Ohio, by a charter granted by King James, bearing date May 23, 1609, and had attempt ed to exercise authority over - said territory, but without much success.
Civil government was more in name than reality um: til 1788.
In 1783, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act authorizing the Virginia delegates in Congress to con vey to the United States all the right of that Common wealth to the territory north-west of the river Ohio.
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