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4413. LANDS (Public), Sale.—[further continued].

Congress have * * * passed an ordinance for disposing of their lands
and, I think, a very judicious one. They pro
pose to sell them at auction for not less than
a dollar an acre, receiving their own certificates
of debt as money.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. i, 393.
(P. 1785)