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drawn, from the Wabash aud Post Vincents due north to the 

 territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by 

 the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Missis- 

 sippi. The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct 

 line, the Wabash, from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, 

 by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great 

 Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial 

 line. The eastern state shall be bounded by the last men- 

 tioned direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said ter- 

 ritorial line; provided, however, and it is further understood 

 and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall 

 be subject so far to be altered, that if congress shall hereafter 

 find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or 

 two states in that part of the territory which lies north of an 

 east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or ex- 

 treme of lake Michigan: and whenever any of the states 

 shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such states 

 shall be admitted by its delegates, into the congress of the 

 United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in 

 all respects whatsoever; and shall be at liberty to form a per- 

 manent constitution and state government: Provided, the con- 

 stitution and government so to be formed, shall be republican, 

 and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles: 

 and so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of 

 the confederacy, such admission shall be had at an earlier pe- 

 riod, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants 

 in the state than sixty thousand. 



Article VJ. There shall be neither slavery nor involunta- 

 ry servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in punish- 

 ment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly con- 

 victed: Provided, always, that any person escaping into the 

 same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any 

 one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully re- 

 claimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor 

 or service as aforesaid. 



Be it ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that the resolu- 

 tions of the 23d of April, 1784, relative to the subject of this 



