...to the Western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers, as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...delegates in Congress to subscribe the said Articles." 28 On the 10th of October, following the passage of this resolution Congress passed another resolution...

...to the western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...delegates in Congress to subscribe the said articles; and that a oopy of the aforementioned remonstranee from the as sembly of Virginia and aet of the legislature...

...to the Western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers, as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...their delegates in Congress to subscribe the said Articles."28 . On the 10th of October, following the passage of this resolution Congress passed another...

...delegates in Congress such powers as may effectually remove tlie only obstacle to a final rollflcation of the Articles of Confederation; and that the legislature of Maryland be earnestly requested to authorize the delegates in Congress to subscribe the said article."1 The State of Virginia, then in actual possession...

...Congress recommended that those states which had claims to the West should pass such laws " as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification of the Articles of Confederation."4 By 1786 Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut had ceded their claims to...

...claims to the western country to pass such laws and give their Delegates in Congress such powers as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...Legislature of Maryland be earnestly requested to authorize the Delegates In Congress to subscribe the said article." Note, in passing, that the Western land situation...

...to the western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...and that the legislature of Maryland be earnestly requpsted to authorize their delegates in Congress to subscribe the said articles; and that a copy...

...to the Western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification...their delegates in Congress to subscribe the said articles;18 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ON THE FORMATION OF THE STATES IN THE WESTERN TERRITORY (1780)" Congress...

...western country, to pass such laws and give their delegates in Congress such powers as effectually to remove the only obstacle to a final ratification of the Articles of Confederation ; and whereas in consequence thereof the legislature of the State of Maryland authorized their delegates...

...Western country to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers as may effectively remove the only obstacle to a final ratification of the Articles of Confederation." Accordingly, on October 20, 1783, Virginia passed an act authorizing the conveyance of title to the...