...States and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils, on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforelaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original...

...CONTAINED IN THE ORDINANCE OF 1787. " It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority [of Congress] that the following articles shall be considered as...the original States and the people and States in the feaid territory, and for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : — ARTICLE I....

...respectively assumed by the parties thereto. They are as follows : — It is hereby ordained and declared that the following articles shall be considered as...the people and States in the said territory : and for ever remain unalterable except by the common consent, to wit : • •••**• Art. VI. There...

...consistent with the general interest : 14. It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority afiresaid, that the following articles shall be considered as...remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : 9 ARTICLE I. No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly niauner, shall ever be molested...

...States and permanent governments therein, and for their admission to a share in the Federal councils, on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by the common consent." Then follows six articles of compact. Part of the fifth and the sixth are in these...

...States and permanent governments therein, and for their admission to a share in the Fedcr.l councils, on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by the common consent." Then follows six articles of compact. Part of the fifth and the sixth are in these...

...States and permanent governments therein, and for their admission to a share in the Federal councils, on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless 4y the common consent." Then follows six articles of compact. Part of the fifth and the sixth are in...

...in the Federal councils, on an eqnal footing with the original States, at as early periods as tn»y be consistent with the general interest. " It is hereby...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by the common consent." Then follows six articles of compact. Part of the fifth and the sixth are in these...

...tried by our fathers. Its only beneficent result was the demonstration thereby afforded of its "It ¡3 hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid,...remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : "ARTICLE 1. No person demeaning himself in a peaceable, orderly manner, shall ever be molested on...

...also for the establishment of States, and for their admission to a share in the federal council on an equal footing with the original States, at as early...Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless- bycommon consent, viz: ART. II. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the...