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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) REPORT ON CESSION OF WESTERN TERRITORY. 1 - The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786)
REPORT ON CESSION OF WESTERN TERRITORY. 1 - Thomas Jefferson, The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786) [1905]Edition used:The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5). Vol. 4.
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- Notes On Virginia ( Continued )
- Query Xii a Notice of the Counties, Cities, Townships, and Villages?
- Query Xiii the Constitution of the State and Its Several Charters?
- Query Xiv the Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws?
- Query Xv the Colleges and Public Establishments, the Roads, Buildings, &c.?
- Query Xvi the Measures Taken With Regard of the Estates and Possessions of the Rebels, Commonly Called Tories?
- Query Xvii the Different Religions Received Into That State?
- Query Xviii the Particular Customs and Manners That May Happen to Be Received In That State?
- Query Xix the Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Interior and Exterior Trade?
- Query Xx a Notice of the Commercial Productions Particular to the State, and of Those Objects Which the Inhabitants Are Obliged to Get From Europe and From Other Parts of the World?
- Query Xxi the Weights, Measures and the Currency of the Hard Money? Some Details Relating to Exchange With Europe?
- Query Xxii the Public Income and Expences?
- Query Xxiii the Histories of the State, the Memorials Published In Its Name In the Time of Its Being a Colony, and the Pamphlets Relating to Its Interior Or Exterior Affairs Present Or Antient?
- Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1783
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To General Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison 1
- To the French Minister. (chevalier De La Luzerne.)
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs. (robert R. Livingston)
- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To James Madison 2
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To John Jay
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison
- Proposed Constitution For Virginia 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison
- To Charles Carter
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To James Madison
- Report of Committee On Unfinished Business 1
- Report On Definitive Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolutions Relating to British Treaty. 1
- Report On Letters From the Ministers In Paris 2
- Report On Ceremonial For Washington 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Ratification of Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- 1784 - to James Madison
- Motion On Ratification of Treaty 1
- Fair Copy
- Rough Draft
- Resolution On Definitive Treaty 1
- Ratification of Definitive Treaty 2
- Draft For Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To Oliver Pollock
- Draft of a Report On the Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Others 1
- Rough Draft
- Fair Copy
- Report On Letter From John Allan 1
- Draft of Report On a Committee of the States 1
- Report On Committee of the States 1
- To the Superintendent of Finance 1 (robert Morris)
- To James Madison
- Draft of Deed of Cession of Northwest Territory 1
- Report On Government For Western Territory 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Reduction of Civil List 1
- Instructions For Negotiating With Indians. 1
- To George Washington
- To George Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolves On European Treaties 1
- Report of Government For the Western Territory 1
- Report On Cession of Western Territory. 1
- Report of the Arrears of Interest 1
- To George Washington
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison.)
- To George Washington
- Notes On the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage For the United States 1
- Motion On Steuben. 1
- Notes On the Permanent Seat of Congress. 1
- Resolutions For the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. 1
- Resolve On Continental Congress
- To George Washington
- To James Madison
- Report On Mercer 1
- Draft of “an Ordinance Establishing a Land Office For the United States” 2
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To Horatio Gates 1
- Report On Continental Bills of Credit 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary Appointed to Negotiate Treaties of Commerce With the European Nations 1
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To Benjamin Franklin 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison.
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To Horatio Gates 1
- 1785 - to Nathanael Greene 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To James Monroe
- To Mrs. Sprowle
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To Richard Henry Lee
- To the Virginia Delegates In Congress
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst 1
- To John Adams 1
- To Dr. Richard Price
- To John Jay
- To James Monroe 1
- To David Hartley
- To Mary Jefferson 1
- To Mrs John (abigail) Adams
- To Hogendorp (count Gysbert-charles Van)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst
- To Phillip Mazzei
- Conference With the Count De Vergennes On the Subject of the Commerce of the United States With France. 1 1785.
- Correspondence 1786
- To Dr. James Currie
- To the Governor of Virginia. 1 (patrick Henry.)
REPORT ON CESSION OF WESTERN TERRITORY.
c. c. March 22, 1784.
The Report of a Committee on the Subject of Western territory having been referred to the Grand committee they have had the same under their consideration and agreed to the following report.
Congress by their resolution of Sep. 6. 1780, having thought it adviseable to press upon the states having claims to the Western country a liberal surrender of a portion of their territorial claims, by that of the 10th. of Oct. in the same year having fixed the conditions to which the Union should be bound on receiving such cessions: and having again proposed the same subject to those states in their address of April 1783, wherein, stating the National debt & it’s annual interest, they recommended for the discharge of the interest the plan of an impost on commerce now under consideration with the states, with such subsidiary funds as they might judge most convenient, & for the discharge of the principal & expressing some their reliance for its discharge on other resources but chiefly on the prospect of vacant territory, in aid of other resources, they, for that purpose, as well as to obviate disagreeable controversies & confusions included in the same recommendation a renewal of those of Sep. the 6th. & of Oct. the 10th. 1780. which several recommendations have not yet been finally complied with.
Resolved, that the same subject be again presented to the attention of the said states, that they be urged to consider that the war being now brought to a happy termination by the personal services of our souldiers, the supplies of property by our citizens, & loans of money from them as well as from foreigners, these several creditors have a right to call for a precise designation of the funds expect that funds shall be provided on which they are to may rely for indemnification; that Congress still consider vacant territory as the a capital resource; that this too is the time when our Confederacy with all the territory included within it’s limits should assume it’s ultimate and permanent form; & that therefore the sd states be earnestly pressed by immediate & liberal cessions to forward these necessary ends, & to remove those obstacles which disturb the harmony of the Union, which embarrass it’s councils & obstruct its operations.
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