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Excerpt from The Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organized Territories of the United States, 1789-1895 When the First Congress of the United States met in New York in 1789, among the first subjects that came before it for consideration was that of the government of the public territory in the west.1 More recent surveys have shown this territory to consist of some one hundred and seventy millions of acres,2 but then it was merely a vast tract of unbroken wilderness, stretching north and west of the river Ohio, and designated vaguely as the Northwest. How had the United States come into pos session of this vast wilderness? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.