Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred, on the 26th Ultimo, the Consideration of the Expediency of Accepting from the State of Connecticut, a Session of Jurisdiction of the Territory West of Pennsylvania, Commonly Called the Western Reserve of Conn…

24 pp. 21st March, 1800. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Next Monday Week. A pamphlet of the charter issued by the King of England granting possession of the land of Virginia. EXCERPT: That in the year 1606, on the 10th of April, James I. king of England, on the application of Sir Thomas Gates and others, for license to settle a colony in that part of America, called Virginia, not possessed by any Christian prince, or people, between the thirty-fourth and forty-fifth degrees of north latitude, granted them a charter."