[46] Appendix B, No. [2.]

[47] Post, § [22.]

[48] Randall, Jefferson, I. 397-400; Winsor, VII. 528; Journals of Congress, IX. 153-156.

[49] Appendix B, No. [4;] Journals of Congress, X. 79; Bancroft, History of the U. S. (last rev.), VI. 132-134; Bancroft, Constitution, I. 178-180; Hildreth, III. 458.

[50] Appendix B, No. [6.] On the Northwest Ordinance in general, see Winsor, VII. 538; J. H. Merriam, Legislative History of the Ordinance of 1787 (Worcester, 1888); Lalor's Cyclopædia, III. 30-34.

[51] Elliot's Debates, V. 487.

[52] Ibid., V. 487.

[53] Appendix B, No. [7.]

[54] Elliot's Debates, III. 277.

[55] Ibid., III. 182.