![]() ![]() This either required troops to eject the Native Americans or capital to purchase their land "fairly"insuring the peaceful sale and settlement. The Federal Government, however, lacked the resources to manage the newly surveyed lands because Native Americans refused to relinquish a large percentage of the platted land and most of the territory remained too dangerous for settlement. President Lee wrote to his friend and colleague Samuel Adams: ![]() Debate began on the expanding the Ordinance of 1784 on April 14 and discussion of Jefferson’s survey method “hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot” and “sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre.” On May 3, 1785, William Grayson of Virginia made a motion seconded by James Monroe to change “seven miles square”to “six miles square” and the current US Survey system was born. It was the sale of these vast federal lands, he deduced, was the nation's only hope to pay off the war debt and adequately fund federal government. Lee believed that the urgency of this measure was paramount because borrowing more foreign money was no longer prudent and he abhorred the movement to establish new federal taxes. Throughout his term, President Richard Henry Lee remained steadfast the release of states’ territorial claims on the Northwest Territory would enable the federal government to fund itself with land sales. ![]()
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