Publications

OF THE

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

ORDINANCE OF 1787.

PRESENTED TO THE PUBLICATION fund.

BY a Resolution of the Society, any one who shall pay to its Treasurer twenty dol

lars, obtains the right to receive, during life, one copy of each publication.

AMOUNT OF FUND $11,500.

OF THE

ORDINANCE OF 1787.

BY

EDWARD COLES,

FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ;
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

READ BEFORE

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

June 9, 1856.

مهرة

PRESS OF THE SOCIETY.
1856.