Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-08-27
For the Hank Eve

Mr. EDIToR:-There seems to be much
doubt among the people as to the effect Of
the adoption of the Constitution upon our
condition as Territory. Are we State
or IS further action on the part of Con-
gress or the State necessary!
1t Is not known yet what are the pre-
else provisions of the recent act of Con-
gress in relation TO Iowa, but it is under
stood TO provide the same boundaries as
are laid down in our Consli,u,ion-to
repeal the boundary fixed by the act of
March Sd. ls45-to provide for some
adjustment Of the Southern boundary line
and to give US two Representatives in
Congress. The title OF the late act is "An
act TO define the boundaries of the State of
Iowa and to repeal so much Of the act of
Sd March. l845, as relates to the boun.
daries Of said State
In March, 1915, two acts of Congress
were passed in relation TO Iowa, one is as
follows:
CHAPTER 48.
AN ACT for the admission of the States of Iowa
and Flonrida into the Union
Whereas, the people of the Territory of
Iowa did. on the seventh day of Octo.
Der, eighteen hundred and forty-four,
by convention of delegates called and
assembled for that purpose, form for
themselves a Constitution and State
Government; and whereas, the people
of the Territory of Florida did, in like
manner, by their delegates, on the
eleventh day of January, eighteen hun
dred and thirty.nlne, form for them.
selves Constitution and State Govern.
ment, both of which said Constitutions
are republican; and said Conventions
having asked the admission of their
respective Territories into the Union as
States, on an equal footing with the
original States:
SEC. /. BE ii enac1ed by the Senate
and House Of Representatives Of tie
United States Of .4merica IN Congress
assembled, That the States of Iowa and
Florida be, and the same are hereby ad-
mitted into the Union on equal footing
with the original States, in all respects
whatsoever.
Sec. 2. find be 1t further enacted, That
the following shall be the boundaries OF
the said State of Iowa, 10 wit: Beginning
at the mouth of the Des Moines river, at
the middle of the Mississippi, thence by
the middle of the channel Of said river 10
parallel of latitude passing through the
mouth Of the Mankato, or Blue Earth
river, thence west along the said parallel
of latitude to point where it is ntersect
ed by meridian line, seventeen degrees
and thirty minutes west Of the meridian OF
Washington city, thence due south TO The
northern boundary line of the State of
Missouri, thence eastwardly following
that boundary to the point at which the
same lntersects the Des Mones river,
thence by the middle of the channel OF
that river to the place Of beginning.
Sec. 3. find be 1t further enacted,
That the said State of Iowa shall have
concurrent jurisdiction on the river aIis.
sissippi, and every other river bordering
on the said State of Iowa, so far as the
SAID rivers shall form common boundary
to said State, and any other State or States
by the same: Such rivers TO be common
to both: And that the said river Mssis-
sippi, and the navigable waters leading
into the same, shall be common highways,
and forever free as well TO the inhabiianl.
of said State, as TO all other citizens of the
United States, without any tax, duty,
impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the
said State OF Iowa.
Sec. 4. And be 1T further enacted,
That it is made and declared to be fun.
damenial condition Of the admission OF
said State Of Iowa into the Union, that so
much of this act as relates to the said
State of Iowa shall be assented 10 by a
majority Of the qualified electors at their
township elections in the manner and a.
the time prescribed in the sixth section of
the thirteenth article of the Constitution
adopted at Iowa City the first day of No.
vember, ammo Domin eighteen hundred
and forty-four, or by the Legislature OF
said State. And as soon as such assen,
shall be given. the President of the United
States shall announce the same by pro.
clamation; and therefrom and without
further proceedings on the part of Con-
gress the admission Of the said State OF
Iowa into the Union, on an equal footing
in all respects whatever with the original
States, shall be complete.
SEC. 5. find be 1t further enacted,
That the said State Of Florida, shall EN-
brace East and West Florida, which by
the treaty of amity, settlement and limits
between the United States and Spain, on
the twenty-second day Of Feb'y, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, we're ceded to the
United States.
Sec. 6. find be it further enacted,
That until the next census and apportion-
ment shall be made, each ct said States Of
Iowa and Florida, shall be entitled to one
Representative in the House Of Represen-
tatiyes of the United States.
SEC. 7 find be 1t further enacted,
That said States of Iowa and Florida are
admitted into the Union on the express
condition that they shall never interfere
with The primary disposal of the public
lands lying within them, nor levy any tax
on the same whilst remaining the proper
ty of the United States: Provided, That
the ordinance of the Convention that