 | Joseph F. Zimmerman - Political Science - 2012 - 246 pages
...transferred to the Congress (proposed to be created by the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) to be "disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and formed into distinct states which shall become members of this Federal Union, . . ." The effective... | |
 | Amy Hill Shevitz - History - 2007 - 289 pages
...Continental Congress decided that the new nation should take over existing states' western claims, to be "disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and [to] be settled and formed into distinct republican States."13 Mindful of the chaos of claims in Kentucky... | |
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Resolved, That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress ' of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the... 
