Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-05-07
1PUELIC-No.3 3.7

1PUELIC-No. 80.
AN ACT for the admission of the State of Wis
consin into the Union.
Whereas the people of the Territory of Wis
cousin did, the sixteenth day OF December,
eighteen hundred and forty by convention
of delegates called and assembled for that purpose,
form for themselves a constitution and State gov
eminent, which said consultation is republican :;
and said convention having asked the admission
of said Territory into the Union as State, an
equal footing with the original States:
ISEc. IL Be 1t enacted Juthe Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of Anaeri-
ca in Congress assembled, That the State of Wis
consin be- and the same is hereby declared TO be,
one of the United States of America, and is here
by admitted into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States, in all respects whatever.
Sec. 2. Ard be 1t further enacted, That the
assent of Congress is hereby given to the chan e
of boundary proposed in the first article of said
constitution, to wit: leaving the boundary line
prescribed in the act of Congress entitled An act
to enable the people of Wisconsin Territory to
form constitution and State government and for
the admission of such state into the Union," al
the first rapids in the river st. Louis thence in
direct line southwardy to poinhffteen miles east
of the most eastery point in lake st. Crox, thence
due south TO the main channel Of the Mssissi ppi
river or lake Pcpin, thence down the said main
channel as prescribed in said act.
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That tho
assent of Congress is hereby given to the resolu-
! tons adopted by said convention and appended tc
said constitution and the acts of Congress referred
to in said resolutions are hereby amended so thai
the lands thereby granted and the proceeds there
of, and the five per centum of the net proceeds O
the public lands, may be held and disposed of by
said S. tie, in the manner and for the purposes re
commended by said convention: PrCUtded, h0W
erer That The Liabilities incurred by the terrItoria
governm 3nt of Wisconsin, under the act entitled
" An act to grant quantity of land to the Teni
tory of Wisconsin, for the purpose Of aiding in o
pening canal to connect the waters of Lake Mich
igan with those of Rock river" shall be paid ant
discharged by said State: And prorided, further
That the even numbered sections along the rout
of said proposed canal shall be brought into mar
ket, and sold at the same minimum price and sub
iect to the same rights of pre-emption to all tn
settlers thereon at the passage of this act othe
public lands of the United States.
y SEC 4. And be 1t further enacted, That it i
made and declared to be fundamental condition
of the admission of said State of Wisconsin int
the Union, that the constitution adopted at Mad
son. on the sixteenth day of December in the yea
one thousand eight hundred and forty six, shall b
assented to bv the qualified electors, in The man
ner and at the times prescribed in the ninth SEE
ton of the twentieth article OF said constitution
And as soon as such assent shall be given. tn
, President of the United States shall announce th
same by proclamation and therefrom, and with
out any further proceedings on the part of Cor
!. gress, the admission of said State Of Wisconsi
into the Union, on an equal footing in all respect
whatever with the original States, shall be COZ
). sidered as complete.
t Approved March 8, lS41