Letter from Muhlenburg Matthews & Parker relative to Lands

Recd July 30. 89 June 18th 1789

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In Congress July 17th: 1789

Resolved, that the executive of the State of Virginia be requested to inform Congress whether there has been any deficiency of good lands reserved by the laws of that State on the South East side of the Ohio for the Virginia troops upon Continental establishment; and if there has been deficiency, what is the Amount, and allso what check’s have been provided by the said State to prevent the said troops takeing up more lands than are actually due to them, in order that measures may be taken immediately for laying off for the benefit of such troops a suffiecient quantity of good lands between the rivers Scioto and little Miami, and that Congress may be prepared to dispose of the remaining land between those rivers for the general benefit of the Union.