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other states to a share in the western lands. Congress permitted this protest to be filed with a condition that it shall never be considered as admitting any claim by the same set up or intended to be set up. Maryland refused to become a member of the Confederation unless the articles should be amended to contain a provision in conformity to her views in reference to the western country. She seemed to persist in her course, notwithstanding that she had been defeated at every step. December 15, 1778, her legislature adopted A declaration and a letter of instructions to her delegates in Congress, both of which were devoted to the subject of the western lands and were laid before Congress May 21, 1779. (Journals of Congress, vol. 2, pp. 601-605; vol. 3, pp. 281-2-3, 289. Henning's Statutes of Virginia, vol. 10, appendix.) These documents reiterate the former claims and arguments of Maryland, extending and elaborating them. They complain that the alterations and amendments pro