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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1787.
Congress assembled present as before.
[Report of Committee on memorial of S. H. Parsons1]
[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, pp. 27--29, in the writing of Mr. Edward Carrington. Printed copies of this report are in Papers of the Continental Congress, Broadsides. Read July 10, and made order for the day for July 11, 1787. See May 9, July 14, 17, and 23, 1787.]
The Committee consisting of [Mr. Edward Carrington, Mr. Rufus King, Mr. Nathan Dane, Mr. James Madison and Mr. Egbert Benson] to whom was referred the Memorial of Samuel H Parsons Esqr., report as follows,
Resolved, that the Treasury Board be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons Esqr. or any other Agent or Agents, duly authorised, by the Company stiled and known by the name of the Association for the purchase of Lands on the N. West side of Ohio River, for a grant of a Tract which shall be bounded by the Ohio, Muskingum and Seioto Rivers, and a due cast and West line intersecting a line at a distance not less thatn 70 Miles from its beginning, to be extended due North from the middle of one to be drawn from the mouth of Muskingum, to the mouth of Seioto, [from the mouth of Store to the intersection of the Western Boundary of the seventh Range of Townships now surveying thence by the said
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boundary to the Northern boundary of the Township, thence by a due West line to Sioto, thence by the Sioto to the beginning,] upon the following terms; Viz
The Tract to be surveyed and its contents ascertained by the Geographer, or some other proper Officer of the United States, who shall plainly mark the said east and West line, and shall render one complete plat to the Treasury Board and another to the Company.
The Company, withinyears from the completion of this work, to lay off the whole Tract, at their own expence, into Townships and fractional parts of Townships, and to divide the same into lots according to the Land Ordinance1 of the 20th. of May 1785, complete returns whereof shall be made to the Treasury Board.
[Note 1: 1 Journals, vol. XXVIII, pp. 375--381.]
The lot No. 16 in each Township to be given perpetually for the purposes contained in the said Ordinance.
The lot No. 29 in each Township to be given perpetually for the purposes of Religion.
The lots No. 8, 11, and 26 in each Township to be reserved for the future disposition of Congress.
Four complete Townships to be given perpetually for the purposes of an University, be laid off by the Company, as near the centre as may be, so that the same shall be of good land, to be applied to the intended object by the Legislature of the State.
The stipulated price to be one dollar per Acre for all the Land contained in the Tract, excepting the reservations and gifts aforesaid, payable in specie, loan Office certificates reduced to specie Value, or certificates of liquidated debts of the United States, liable to a reduction by an allowance for bad land, expences of surveying and all incidental charges and circumstances whatever, provided that such allowance shall not exceed in the whole one third of a dollar per Acre.
Such of the Company as may possess rights for bounties of Land to the late Army, to be permitted to render the same in discharge of the contract Acre for Acre, provided that the agregate of such rights, shall not exceed one seventh part of the Land to be paid for, and provided also that there shall be no future claim against the United States on account of the said rights.
dollars of the purchase Money to be paid down upon the closing of the Contract, and the remainder upon the completion of the work to be performed by the Geographer or other Officer, on the part of the United States.
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The Company to be at liberty for the term of three years from the closing of this Contract, to extend their purchase, from time to time, upon the same terms, within the Muckingum and Seioto, and lines extening due North from their sourses as far as the Indian boundary established by the Treaty of 1785, provided that there shall never be left any interstice, and that the Northern boundary shall always be by a due East and West line until it shall reach the said Indian boundary. a line to be extended due North from the conflux of the branches of Sioto at a place called Town lick and the continuation of the boundary of the seventh Range of Townships as far as the Indian boundary established by the Treaty of 1785, provided that there shall never be left any interstice, and that the Northern boundary shall always be by a due East and West line until the several purchases shall reach the said Indian boundary.1
[Note 1: 1 July 10, 1787. According to the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 151, the following committee was appointed:
Mr. Abraham Clark, Mr. William Pierce, Mr. Nathan Dane, Mr. William Few and Mr. John Kean on a motion of Mr. Pierce respecting the requisition for 1787 and the estimate of the Board of Treasury for that year. This was a renewal of the committee of May 3, 1787. Report rendered July 14, 1787. See April 2, 1787.]
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