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the part of Vermont, the admission thereof into 

 the federal union with the United States of 

 North America. And in behalf of the state, 

 to subscribe articles of perpetual union and con- 

 federation therewith." 



While the assembly of Vermont was thus 

 employed in effecting a compliance with the re- 

 solves of Congress, warm debates had taken 

 place in that assembly, respecting the measures 

 that ought to be pursued with Vermont, The 

 refusal of the legislature in October, to comply 

 with the resolve Congress had passed on August 

 20th, was viewed in a very unfavorable light- 

 On March first, it was proposed in Congress to 

 pass a resolve, that if within one month from 

 the time in which the resolve should be com- 

 municated to Thomas Chittenden, the inhabi- 

 tants of Vermont should comply with the re- 

 solves of August 7th and 20th, 1781, they should 

 be immediately admitted into the union, but if 

 they should refuse this, and did not desist from 

 attempting to exercise jurisdiction over the lands 

 guaranteed to New Hampshire, and New York, 

 Congress would consider such neglect or refu- 

 sal, as a manifest indication of designs hostile to 

 the United States, and that ail the pretensions 

 and applications of the said inhabitants, hereto- 

 fore made for admission into the federal union, 

 were fallacious and delusive ; and that thereupon 

 the forces of the United States, should be em- 

 ployed against the inhabitants, and Congress 

 would consider all the lands within the territory 

 to the eastAvard of the ridge of mountains, as 

 guaranteed to New Hampshire ; and ^all the 

 lands to the westward of said linCj.as guaranteed 



