And no other person shall be capable of
taking an appropriation.
Lands heretofore holden of the crown in fee simple, and those
hereafter to be appropriated shall be holden in full and absolute
dominion, of no superior whatever.
No lands shall be appropriated until purchased of the Indian
native proprietors; nor shall any purchases be made of them but on
behalf of the public, by authority of acts of the General assembly to
be passed for every purchase specially.
The territories contained within the charters erecting the
colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, are
hereby ceeded, released, & forever confirmed to the people of those
colonies respectively, with all the rights of property, jurisdiction
and government and all other rights whatsoever which might at any
time heretofore have been claimed by this colony. The Western and
Northern extent of this country shall in all other respects stand as
fixed by the charter of
until by act of the Legislature one or more territories shall
be laid off Westward of the Alleghaney mountains for new colonies,
which colonies shall be established on the same fundamental laws
contained in this instrument, and shall be free and independent of
this colony and of all the world.
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