sion. the United States. Deed of ces- to them by the laws of Virginia. That all the lands within the territory so ceded to the United States, and Lands ceded not reserved for, or appropriated to, any of the beforeto be a com- mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the mon fund for officers and soldiers of the American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. Provided, that the trust hereby reposed in the delegates of this state, shall not be executed unless three of them at least are present in congress. Three dele. gates to Dr present. Delegates convey the territory. AND WHEREAS, the said general assembly, by their resolution of June sixth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, had constituted and appointed us, the said Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe, delegates to represent the said commonwealth in congress for one year, from the first Monday in November then next following, which resolution remains in full force: Now, THEREFORE, KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe, by virtue of the power and authority committed to us by the act of the said general assembly of Virginia, before recited, and in the name, and for and on behalf, of the said commonwealth, do, by these presents, convey, 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 first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and of the independence of the United States the eighth. CHA. THOMPSON, HENRY REMSEN, Junr. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the United States have caused their Great Seal to be affixed to this exemplification. WITNESS, Charles Thomson, esquire, their secretary and keeper of their Great Seal. CHA. THOMPSON. [From the original, in the clerk's office of the house of delegates, among the governor's communication of 1784.3 TO THE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF THE STATUTES AT LARGE. ABERDEEN. ACCOUNTS. ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. 127. ADAMS, ROBERT JR. ADMINISTRATION. ALEXANDRIA. pose a wharfage tax 44. Wa- record 156. Restriction as to Common seal, how affixed, ALIENATIONS. ALLEGIANCE. AMMUNITION. ANDERSON, MARY. subject, vested in Mary An- ANTRIM. Halifax, dissolved, and a new their glebe, and purchase a new one 404. APPEALS. Tax on 378, 439. APPROPRIATION. See Taxes. ARMS. vided 494. If imported, to ARMY. Three thousand troops for con- tates 82. Officers and soldiers |