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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.

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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,

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JAMES MONROE,

(L. s.)

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of

CHA. THOMPSON,

HENRY REMSEN, Junr.
BEN. BANKSON, 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.]

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TO THE

ELEVENTH VOLUME

OF THE

STATUTES AT LARGE.

ABERDEEN.

Slave Aberdeen, for his long and
faithful services, at the lead
mines, emancipated 309.

ACCOUNTS.
Commissioners appointed to set-
tle accounts between this state
and United States, anthorised
to summon witnesses 33.
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.
Tax on private acts of assembly

127.

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record 156. Restriction as to
proof of wills and deeds 156.
Common seal, how affixed,
and its authenticity 156. Court
day altered 158. Jurisdiction
of court of hustings 314.

ALIENATIONS.
Duty of commissioners of land
tax, in cases of alienations or
partition 143. Lists to be fur
nished 143.

ALLEGIANCE.
Penalty for administering oath
of allegiance to an alien ene-
my, or British subject 138.

AMMUNITION.
Militia to furnish themselves with
478. A quantity to be im-
ported 494.

ANDERSON, MARY.
Estate of Samuel Gist, a British

subject, vested in Mary An-
derson, his daughter and only
child 54.

ANTRIM.
Vestry of parish of Antrim, in

Halifax, dissolved, and a new
vestry to be elected 73. Fur-
ther time allowed to elect ves-
Authorised to sell
try 112.

their glebe, and purchase a
new one 404.

APPEALS.

Tax on 378, 439.

APPROPRIATION.

See Taxes.
Appropriation of revenue 12.-
Land tax appropriated 247:
Slave tax 247. All other tax-
es 248. Tonnage duty 249.
Acts for appropriating the
public revenue amended and
reduced into one act 433.-
Appropriation of the land tax
433: Of the slave tax 433. Of
the poll-tax and tax on person-
al property 434. Of the duties
on goods imported, and tobac-
co exported 435. Of tax on
patents 436.

ARMS.

Arms and accoutrements belong-
ing to the state to be delivered
up to commandants of regi-
ments 132. Proclamation for
that purpose 132. Penalty on
those who detain them 132.-
County lieutenants to return
an account of arms received
132. Penalty 132. Saving as
to arms placed on frontiers
132.

Cavalry, how armed
173. Militia in counties most
exposed, and in Williamsburg
and Norfolk, to be armed 174.
Arms, how disposed of 174.
-Fines for failing to return
arms 174. Militia, how arm-
ed 478, 479. Arms not lia-
ble to execution or distress
493. If lost in service, not
to be paid for, unless loser
killed or disabled 493. Arms
and accoutrements to be pro-

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Three thousand troops for con-
tinental army to be raised 14.
Counties to be divided into
classes 15. If not enlisted for
three years or the war, to be
drafted for three years 15.-
Recruits, how disposed of 17.
Officers of the line to receive
recruits 17. Bounty, pay and
emoluments 17. Quakers and
menonists, how exempted from
personal service 18. Express-
es, how procured 18. Fines
for delinquencies 19. Surplus
of funds, in a class, how dis-
posed of 19. Furnishing a
recruit exempts the class 19.
Counties failing to furnish the
former. quotas, to be reported
to the general assembly 19.-
Returns of officers resigned,
to be made 20. Act to pro-
vide more effectual funds for
the redemption of certificates
granted officers and soldiers
81. Injunctions or pleas to
stay sales of escheated proper-
ty to be expedited 81. Frau-
dulent conveyances by British
subjects 81. Payment of Bri-
tish debts into the treasury re-
vived 82. Creditors may at-
tach 82. Sale of forfeited es-
tates 82. Officers and soldiers
to pass their accounts upon
bath 83. Guard against fur-
ther depreciation 83. Officers
and soldiers to give in their
land claims 83. How their
land warrants are to be obtain-

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