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4415. LANDS (Public), Sale.—[further continued].

Congress have purchased a very considerable extent of country from the
Indians, and have passed an ordinance laying
down rules for disposing of it. These admit
only two considerations for granting lands: first,
military service rendered during the late war;
and secondly, money to be paid at the time of
granting, for the purpose of discharging their
national debt.—
To Marquis de Poncens. Washington ed. i, 430.
(P. 1785)