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8389. TERRITORY, Cession of Northwest.—[continued].

The General Assembly
shall have power to sever from this State all
or any parts of its territory westward of the
Ohio, or of the meridian of the mouth of the
Great Kanawha.—
Proposed Constitution for Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 446. Ford ed., iii, 325.
(1783)