. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . gress by petition or reso-lution, for although Congress had no power to coerce a state, each ofthe states wanted its claims recognized by the general government, andby the other states. Almost from the first, Maryland insisted thatCongress be given absolute power over the matter. On October 15, amonth before the Articles of Confederation were proposed to the statesfor ratification, it was moved that the United States in Congress as-sembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . gress by petition or reso-lution, for although Congress had no power to coerce a state, each ofthe states wanted its claims recognized by the general government, andby the other states. Almost from the first, Maryland insisted thatCongress be given absolute power over the matter. On October 15, amonth before the Articles of Confederation were proposed to the statesfor ratification, it was moved that the United States in Congress as-sembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertainand fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the ]ilississippior South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary, so ascertained,into separate and independent States, from time to time, as the num-bers and circumstances of the people may require; and Maryland wasthe only state that voted in the affirmative. Thereafter Maryland stead- 2 The ordinary legislature of Virginia was called the Convention, and numer-ous writers have been misled as to its character on this Colonial Charter Claims INDIANA AND INDIANANS 185 ily refused to join in the Articles of Confederation until satisfactoryassurance was given as to the western lands, and did not join untilMarch 1, 1781, two years after all the other states had joined, and whena satisfactory solution of the land question appeared to be in sight. Asthe subject was considered, the necessity for a compromise which in-volved a surrender of most of the western lauds to the Confederationgradually grew plainer. On February 19, 1780, New York led the wayby authorizing her delegates in Congress to make either a full or a re-stricted cession of her claims to the national government. On Septem-ber 6, of the same year, Congress adopted a report and resolutionrecommending the states that had claims to make a liberal surrenderof a i^ortion of their territorial claims, since they cannot be preservedentire without
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