| United States. Congress - 1835 - 676 pages
...altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn ihroufti the southern bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." Nofi what disinterested man, on reading this... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1835 - 1436 pages
...into which the same should be dir.ded, should have sixty thousand free inhabitants, such State should be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of...United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at lilierty to form a permanent constitution and State... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 320 pages
...if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two elates in that part of the said territory which lies north...United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever; and shall be at liberty to forma permanent constitution and state... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 pages
...»\iew.d,U«t if congress shall here-after find it expedient, they s\\a\\ lane wo&anvj v> fcmsv owt <si wo states in that part of the said territory which lies...delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on ail equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever; and shall be at liberty to... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 pages
...shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north nf an east and west line drawn through the southerly...United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1836 - 498 pages
...admission were changed, and by the fifth article of the ordinance it was expressly declared, 'that when any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free...United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state... | |
| South Carolina - 1836 - 476 pages
...extreme ACT OF of lake Michigan. And, whenever any of the said States shall have 30thDsc N Í788 60,000 free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted,...United States on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State... | |
| Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - 1843 - 1080 pages
...to be altered, that if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall hare power to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which...an east and west line drawn through the southerly or extreme bend of Lake Michigan. In the execution of this power, congress has wholly disregarded the... | |
| United States. Congress - 1836 - 650 pages
...altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which...lies north of an east and west line drawn through the somberly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." No one has expressed a doubt that the boundaries of the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1836 - 146 pages
...far to be altered that, if Congress shall find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which...lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southern extremity of Lake Michigan." In this provision there appears to be a discretionary power vested... | |
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