Resolved unanimously, That the Citizens of this State and the United States have a full & indisputable Claim to the Navigation of the River Mississippi as well by the clear & express stipulations of Treaties as by the Great Law of Nature.

Resolved, That the Delegates of this State be instructed to move in Congress for a full & explicit declaration that the right the United States and each of them to the Navigation of the Mississippi is absolutely & unalienable; in order that the apprehensions and fears of our fellow Citizens on that Subject be entirely removed.

The above is a true copy from the printed Journals of the House of Commons Concurred with by the Senate.