Excerpt from Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. 10 The third act was passed by the British parliament m 1774 for the purpose of organizing the government of the province of Quebec. Ou account of the disturbances caused by the frontiersmen and the land speculators in the old N orthwest, and on account of the lack of any civil govern ment of the various F rench communities of the region, the territory lying between the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers was added to the northernmost province. It was expected that the authorization of F rench law throughout the terri tory would prevent further attempts to make settlements of English-speaking Americans north of the Ohio River, and that the latter would turn their speculative enterprises toward the Old Southwest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.