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for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving 

 peace and friendship with them. 



Article IV. The said territory, and the states which may 

 be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this confed- 

 eracy of the United States of America, subject to the articles 

 of confederation, and to such alteration therein, as shall be 



constitutionally made; and to all the acts and ordinances of 

 the United States in congress assembled, conf )rmable thereto. 

 The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory, shall be sub- 

 ject to pav a pUrt of the federal debts contracted, and a pro- 

 portional part of the expenses of the government to be ap- 

 portioned on them, by congress, according to the same com- 

 mon rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shal! 

 be made on the other ptates; and the taxes for paying their 

 proportion, shall be laid and levied, by the authority and di- 

 rection of the legislatures of the districts, or new states, as 

 in the original states, within the time agreed upon by the Uni- 

 ted States in congress assembled. The legislatures of those 

 districts or new states, shall never interfere with the primary 

 disposal of the soil by the United States in congress assem- 

 bled, nor with any regulations congress may find necessary 

 for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. 

 No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United 

 States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed 

 higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into 

 the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places be- 

 tween the same shall be common highways and forever free, 

 as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citi- 

 zens of the United Slates, and those of any other states that 

 may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, im- 

 post, or duty therefor. 



Article V. There shall be formed in said territory, not 

 less than three, nor more than five states, and the boundaries 

 as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of session and consent 

 to the same, shall become fixed and established as follows, to 

 wit: The western state in said territory shall be bounded by 

 the Mississippi, the Ohio, and Wabash rivers; a direct line 



