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[email protected]. 45TH CONGRESS, } SENATE. REPORT 2d Session. { No. 454, IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY 31, 1871:3.-0rdered to be printed. :Mr. BAYARD, from the Committee on Private Lanll-Claims, submitted the following REPORT: [To accompany bill S. 773.] The Committee on Private Land-Claims, to ~ohom was referred the bill (S. 773) 1naking a pre-emption grant to the heirs of Jean Baptiste Beaubien, deceased, for a part of Fort Dearborn reservation at Chicago, Ill., rmd to confirm puroha.sers of other parts in their titles, and to convey to the city of Chicago the streets and alleys of said reservation, submit the fol lowing report : The State of Virginia, by the act of March 1, 1784 (confirmed Decem ber 30, 1788), cederl the territories northwest of the river Ohio to the United States, and by the ordinance of July 13, 1787, it passed under the jurisdiction and became part of the domain of the United States.