ORDINANCE OF 1787.

Mr. POINDEXTER, from the committee appointed on the subject, reported a

bill concerning the power of the Territorial Governments. [The object

of it is to take away from Governors of the Territories the power of

proroguing or dissolving their Legislatures.]

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