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United States in Congress assembled
July 3rd 1788

Whereas application has been lately made to
Congress by the legislature of Virginia and the
district of Kentucky for the admission of the said
district into the federal Union as a seperate member
thereof on the terms contained in the Acts of the said
legislature and in the resolutions of the said district
relative to the premises. And whereas Congress having
fully considered the subject did on the 3d day of June
last resolve that it is expedient that the said district
be erected into a sovereign and independant state and
a seperate member of the federal Union and appointed a
Committee to report an Act accordingly, which Committee
on the second instant was discharged, it appearing that
nine states had adopted the Constitution of the United
States lately submitted to Conventions of the people. And
whereas a new Confederacy is formed among the ratifying
states and there is reason to believe that the state of
Virginia

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