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Virginia including the said district did on the 25 of June
last became a member of the said Confederacy: And
whereas an Act of Congress, in the present State of the
Government of the Country, severing a part of the said
state from the other parts thereof and admitting it into
the Confederacy formed by the Articles of Confederation and
perpetual Union as an independent member thereof
may be attended with many inconveniencies while it
can have no effect to make the said district a separate
member of the federal Union formed by the adoption of
the said Constitution and therefore it must be manifestly
improper for Congress assembled under the said Articles
of Confederation to adopt any other measures relative to
the premises than those which express their sense that
the said district ought to be an independent member
of the Union as soon as circumstances shall permit
proper measures to be adopted for that purpose.

Resolved, that a copy of the proceedings of Congress
relative to the independency of the district of Kentucky
be transmitted to the legislature of Virginia and also
to Samuel M Dowell, Esquire, late president of the said
Convention