Excerpt from Local Institutions of Maryland The results that followed the firm stand taken by the Maryland Assem bly, in their resolution that the Northwest Territory Should be ceded to the general government by the States laying claim to portions Of it, are described in Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States, Johns Hopkins University Studies, Series III., N O. 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.