Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-16
By Authority.
uaws Of the United states passed
mt the second session OF the
29th Congress.
lPuBI1c, No. 49,
AN ACT for the admission Of the State OF WIS
cansin into the Union.

rPUBLIc, No. 50.
AN ACT for the admission of the State of WIS.,
consin into the Union.
xyh.reas tbe people Of the Territory OF WIS
.o,.;n Aid nm the sixteenth day of December,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, by convention
of delegates called and assembled for that Pui-
noe. form for themselves a. constitution when Is
rennblican: and said convention having asked tue
admission Of said Territory into the Union as
State. on an equal footing with the original
States:
TSyc. IL Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the United sfa,es
Of America in Congress assembled, lnat tne
State of Wisconsin be, and the same Is nereoy
declared to be, one of the Uuited states OF
America, and is hereby admitted INTO me uh'?n
on an equal footing with the original states' AZ
all respects whatever.
SEC. 2. And be it furter enacted, That the
assent of Congressi is hereby given to the change
nf boundary proposed in the first article OF SAID
constitution, to wit: leaving the boundary ilne
nresceibed in the act of Congress entitled "An
act to enable the people of Wisconsin Territory
10 form constitution and State government, and
for the admission of such State into the Union"
at the first rapids in the river st. LOUIS, tnence
in a direct line southwardly to point fltteen
miles east of the most easterly point IN lake ot.
lX.l
the Mississippi river or lake Pepln, thence
down the said main channel, as prescribed In
said act.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
assent of Congress is hereby given to the reso-
lutions adopted by said convention anc append
ed to said constitution, and the acts OF Congress
referred to in said resolutions are hereby amend
ed so that the lands thereby granted and the
proceeds thereof, and the five per centum OF the
net proceeds of the public lands. may be held
and disposed Of by said State, in the manner and
for the purposes recommended by said conven-
ton: Provided, however, That the Liabilities IN
Cured BY the territorial Government of Wiscon-
sin, under the act entitled Gan act to grant a
quantity Of land to the Territory of Wisconsin,
for the purpose of aiding in opening canal to
connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those
of Rock river.o shall be paid and discharged by
said State: And provided, further, That the
even numbered sections along the route OF said
proposed canal shall be brought into market,
and sold at the same minimum price, and subject
10 the same rights Of presumption to all the set
tiers thereon at the passage of this act, as other
public lands of the United States.
Sec. a. And be it further enacted. That 1t
is made and declared to be fundamental con-
dition of the admission of said State of Wiscon--
sin into the Union, that the constitution adopted
at Madison, on the sixteenth day of December.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six, shall be assented to by the qualified
electors, in the manner and at the tunes pre-
scribed in the ninth section OF the twentieth ar
tcle of said constitution. And as soon as such
assent shall be given, the President of the Uni.
ted States shall announce the same by proclaim.
ton; and therefrom, and without any further
proceedings on the part of Congress, the admis-
sion of said State Of Wisconsin into the Union
on an equal footing in all respects whatever with
the original States, shall be considered as COM
ple!e.
Approyed March g. 1Si7