Documents Relating to Territorial Administration: Chiefly from the Original Manuscripts, 1778-1790Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing Parker P. Simmons, 1906 - 35 pagina's |
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45th degree acres of land aforesaid ALBERT BUSHNELL HART America appoint and commission apportionments thereof Articles of Confederation assent ay ay board of treasury ceded by individual certificates citizens civil officers commission shall continue commissioners commonwealth Congress assembled consent continue in force county lieutenant county or township deed of cession delegates district documents duly EDWARD CHANNING entitled execute federal debts contracted fee simple free inhabitants free male inhabitants freehold full age George Rogers Clark governor hereby ordained History Journals of Congress Kaskasky lake Erie late continental army laws Leaflets legislature loan office lots magistrates Manuscript Journals miles square militia Missisippi Northwest Ordinance oath offered for sale officers and soldiers Ordinance Papers of old persons plat purchased Resolutions Resolved river Ohio secretary secretary at war settlers seven ranges surveyor temporary government territorial line territory ceded therein township or fractional United unless sooner revoked Virginia Western cape Western Territory
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Pagina 33 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Pagina 32 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Pagina 28 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district, such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress, from time to time; which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the general assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterwards the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit.
Pagina 28 - ... acres of land, while in the exercise of his office; it shall be his duty to keep and preserve the acts and laws passed by the legislature, and the public records of the district, and the proceedings of the governor in his Executive department; and transmit authentic copies of such acts and proceedings, every six months, to the Secretary of Congress...
Pagina 28 - Previous to the organization of the general assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...
Pagina 31 - The Inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and of the trial by Jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law; all Persons shall be bailable unless for capital offences, where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great...
Pagina 30 - Congress, fi?e of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as aforesaid ; and whenever a vacancy shall happen in the Council, by death or removal from office, the House of Representatives shall nominate two persons qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names to Congress...
Pagina 27 - ... lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered, by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers, shall be appointed for that purpose...
Pagina 31 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Pagina 29 - That for every five hundred free male inhabitants there shall be one representative, and so on progressively; with the number of free male inhabitants shall the right of representation increase, until the number of representatives shall amount to twenty-five ; after which the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature : Provided.