Congress of the United States: at the third session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the sixth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the president of the United States be, and he hereby is requested, to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any of the citizens of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States, by the state of North Carolina, and within the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio. ... / Approved, March the third, 1791. George Washington, president of the United States. Deposited among the rolls in the office of the Secretary of State. [blank] Secretary of State