Viewing The Resolutions on Public Land (1780)The Resolutions on Public Land (1780)In 1780, meeting before the Articles of Confederation were adopted, the Continental Congress adopted a Resolution calling upon the existing states--Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia were targeted--to cede their claims to lands in the Western Territory to the United States. A Recommendation to that effect was introduced on September 6, 1780, and a Resolution adopted on October 10, 1780. The latter provided:
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