Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-03-28
seward,s Kansas Rin.


the following amendment to the Douglas
bill, to authorize the people of Kansas to
form a Constitution and State Government
Strike out all after the enacted clause
and insert:
That the State of Kansas shall be one,
and is hereby declared to be one of the
Uuited States of America, and admitted
into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, in all respect whatever, with
the following boundaries: Beginning on the
western boundary of the State of Missouri
where the thirty-seventh parallel Of north
latitude crosses the same, thence west on
said parallel to the one hundred and third
meridian of longitude, thence north on said
meridian to the forteith parallel of latitude,
thence east on said parallel of latitude to
the western boundary of the State of Mis-
souri,, thence southwark with said boundary
to the place of beginning.
Sec 2. That the State of Kansas shall
be entitled to two Senators and one Rep
resentative in Congress.
Sec. 3. That said State of Kansas is
admitted into the Union on the express con-
dition that the people of said State, through
their Legislature, or otherwise, shall never
interfere with the primary disposal of the
public lands within its limits, and shall pass
no law and do no act whereby the title Of
the United States to, and right to dispose
Of, the same shall be impaired or question
cd, or any other restrictions or limitations
imposed thereon than are embraced in
the following section of this act, and that
they shall never lay any tax or assessment
or any restriction whatever upon the pub
lie domain of the United States, and in no
case shall nonresident proprietors who are
citizens of the United States be taxed high
er than residents, and that all the naviga-
bic waters in the said State shall be com
mon highway and forever free as well tC
the inhabitants of the said State as to the
citizens of the United States without any
tax, impost, or duty therefor.
See. 4. And be 1t further enoeted That
the following proposition be, and the same
re hereby offered to the said Convention ot
The people of Kansas, when formed, for
their free acceptance or rejection by the
Legislature of said State, which, if accep-
ted by the State, shall be obligatory on the
United States, and upon the State of Kan
sas to wit:
First-That sections numbered sixteer
and thirty-six in every township of public
lands in said State, and where either o
said sections, or any part thereof, has beer
sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands
equivalent thereto and as contiguous as may
be, shall be granted in said State for thu
use of schools
Second-That seventy-twoseetionso of lanC
shall be set apart and reserved for the ust
and support of State University, to b,
selected by the Governor of said State, sub
joct to the approval of the Commissioner
of the General Lard Office, and to be ap
propriated and applied in such manner a
the Legislature of said State may prescribr
for the purpose aforesaid, but for no othe
purpose.
Third-That ten entire sections of land
to be selected by the Governor of saiC
State, in legal subdivisions, shall be grantee
to said State for the purpose of completing
the public buildings, or for the erection 0
others at the seat of Government, under th'
direction of the Legislature thereof
Forth-That all salt springs within
said State, not exceeding twelve in mum
Der, with six sections of land adjoining, o
as contiguous as may be to each, shall b,
granted to said State for its use: the sam,
to be selected by the Governor thereof
within one year after the admission of saiC
State; and when so selected, to be used o.
disposed Of on such terms, conditions anC
regulations as the Legislature shall direct
Provided, That no salt spring or land, tn
right whereof IS now vested in any indiYidu
al or individuals, or which may be hereaf
ter rconfrmed or adiudgrd to any individua
or individuals, shall, by this article, be gran
ted to the State.
Fyfh-That five per cent of the ne
proceeds of sales of all public lands lying
within said States, which shall be sold b.
Congress after the admission of said Stat,
into the Union, after deducting all the ex
penses incident to the same, shall be paiC
to said State, for the purpose of making
public roads and internal improvements, a
the Legislature shall direct.