The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-22
MONDAY. April 4. ARKANSAS.

he Diii TOT me dGtHisSi0n Ol life Statc or Arkansas being read third time, and the question beIng on is passage,
 Mr. Benton, Air. Swift, Mf. Buchanan, MT. Ewing, of Ohio, made few ohserva- lions, when the question was taken by yeas and nays, and decided IS follows:
 Yeas Messrs. Benton, Brown, Buch- anan, Calhoun, Clayton, Cuthbert, Ewing, of Illinois, Ewing of Ohio, Grundy, Hen dric!ss, Hill, Hubbard, Klng, of Alabama, King, of Georgia, Linn, MeKean. Man- gum, Moore, Morris, Nicholas, Niles, Preston. RH;:sss. Robinson. Rlewles. SSthiep-
 ley, TaIllnadge, Tipton, Walker, White, Wright. -3l.
 Nays.--Messrs. Clay, King, Porter, Robbins, S,3iif.-66.
 The bhI was therefore passed in the fol lowing form:
 4 Bill for the admission of Arkansas into
 the Union, and for the establishment ot n
 district court therein.
 WHEREAS the people of the Territory of Arkansas did. on the fourth day ef January, in the present year, by convention of de- legates called and assembled for that pur- pose, form for themselves a Constitution and Stale Government, which Constitution and State Government so formed is repub- lican; aid the said convention have, on be- half of said people, asked that Arkansas may be admitted into the Union:
 Be 4 enacted by the Seaate and House of Representatives ot he Uniled Statcs of lime riea in Con9Yess assembled, That the State of Arkansas shall be one, and is hereby de- clared 10 be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in aiiii respects whatever; anu iihe saiei sslate shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, 10 vii be. ginning in the middle of the main channel ot the Mississippi liver, on the parallel oi thirty-six degrees north latitude, running from thence west, with the said parallel of latitude, to the St. Francis river; thence up the middle of the main channel uf' said river to the parallel of thiriysix degrees thirty minutes north; from thence west. ta the southwest corner of the State of Missouri; and from thenee,t 10 bounded on the west, to the north bank Of Red river. by "the lines described i'll the first article of the treaty made between the United States md the Cherokee nation ol Indians west of the Mis- sissippi, on the 18th of Mayi in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight" and 10 be bounded on the south side of Red river by the Mexican boundary line, 10 the northwest corner oi the Stale of Louisiana; thence east, with the Louisiana State line, 10 the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river thence up ihe middle of the main channel oi the said river, 10 the thirty-sixth degree ol north latitude, the point of beginning.
 Sec. 3. find De st further enacted, That until the next general census shall he taken. the said State shall be entitled 10 one repre- sentative in the House of Representatives Of the United States.
 Sec. 3. find De II further enacted, That al the laws Of :he United States, which .li-e not locally inapplicable, shall have.the same force and effect within the State of Askan- sas, as elsewhere in the United States.
 Sec. 4. find De i further enacted, That said State shall be one judicial district, and be called the Arkansas district; and d dis trict court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall hold, at the seat ol Government of said State, t@o sessions at. nualy on the first Mondays of April and November, and be shall il all things have and exercise he same jurisdiction and pow CTS which were, by law, given so the judge of the Kentucky district, under m act en- titled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States" He shall appoint clerk for the said district catirt, who shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district Is entitled for similar services.
 SEC. 5. find be Il further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court the annual compensation Of two thousand dollars, 10 commence from the date of his appointment, to be paid qnarter-yearly at the Treasury of the Unit ed States.