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Cessions of land to the government The Yazoo land companies Organization of Mississippi Territory A ct of Congress regulating the sale of public lands Conditions in theN orthwest Territory Establishment of territorial governmentS eparation of Indiana andO hio territories. During the first session of the sixth Congress, which convened December 2, 1799, the House turned its attention to the condition of public domain. As mentioned before, cessions of western lands had been made from time to time by the various States. On February 19,1780, New York surrendered tlie country lying between the sources of the Great Lakes and the Cumberland mountains. In January of 1781, Virginia ceded the territory northwest of theO hio, the deed of cession being executed March 1, 1784. A strip of land included in this Virginia cession, running 80 miles north of latitude 42 2and stretching from theM ississippi toN ew York, had been claimed by Massachusetts and was ceded to the United States in 1784. South of this lay another strip, which was claimed by Connecticut and ceded in 1786. South Carolina soon followed suit, ceiling a strip of land 14 miles wide south of north latitude 35 and running from her western boundary line to theM ississippi. The ordinance of 1787 was then passed, as already related, and the territory northwest of the River Ohio was under stable government. But several of the grants made to the government were made with reservations. Connecticut retained a tract of 3,800,000 acres in Ohio, west of Pennsylvania and running 120 miles along Lake Erie. This was known as theW estern Reserve of Connecticut and was finally (in 1800) ceded to the United States and by the latter toO hio. Virginia had set apart a tract of 150,000 acres in what is now Indiana for the use of General Clark and his men. The Virginia Military District of 4,200,000 acres lay along the north bank o
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