Territory Northwest of the River Ohio -- Land Sales


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Report of Board of Treasury on Western Land Sales, 1787

[LC: CC Papers: no. 139, fol. 467:DS]

[April 4,1787]

The Board of Treasury63 to whom it was referred to Report a Plan for Selling for Public Securities, the Townships Surveyed in the Western Territory.—

Beg leave to Observe,

That agreeably to the Ordinance of the 20th May 1785,64 no Distribution or Sale of Lands can be made until seven Ranges shall have been completely Surveyed, and a Return made of the Surveys.

 

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