By the state of Maryland. A declaration. : Whereas the General Assembly of Maryland hath heretofore resolved ... that the United States in Congress assembled should have full power to ascertain and fix the western limits of those states, that claim to the Mississippi or South Sea ...

"Read and assented to" by the House of Delegates and Senate, December 15, 1778.
Imprint supplied by Bristol.
Morgan Library copy is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
Morgan Library copy signed by George Plater, William Carmichael, John Henry, and Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer.
Protesting those portions of the Articles of Confederation which allowed only certain states to accrue benefits from the sale and settlement of western lands.