The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-16

Court of the United States than accor.
ding to the rules of the common law
Excessive bail shall not be required,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel
and unusual p%unishments inflicted. Nc
law shall be made or have force or eff
feet in said Territory, which shall re-
guire a test oath or oaths to support
any. act of Congress or other Legislative
act, as a qualification for any civil Office
or public trust, or for any employment
or profession: or to serve as a juror or
vote at any election, or which shall i'm
pose any tax upon, or condition to,
the exercise of the right of suffrage, by
any qualified voter, or which shall re-
straiu or prohibit the free discussion of
any law, or subject of legislation, in the
aaid Territory, or the free expression of
opinion thereon, by che people Of said
territory.
Sec. 10. Ind be 1t further enacted,
That the following propositions be, and
the same are hereby, offered to the said
convention of the people of Kansas for
their free acceptance or rejection, which
if accepted by the convention, shall be
obligatory on the United States and up
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First, That sections numbered sixteen
and thirty sig in every township of pub
lie lands in said State, and where other
of said sections or any part thereof has
been sold or otherwise been disposed of,
either lands, equivalent thereto and as
contiguous as may be, shall be granted
in said State for the use of schools.
Second, That the serenty-two sections
Of land shall be set apart and reserved
for the use and support of a State Uni
versity, to be selected by the Governor
of said state, subject to the approval of
the COMMISSIONED of the General Land
Office, and to be appropriated and APP
piled in such manner as the Legislature
of said state may prescribe, for the pur-
pose aforesaid, but for no other purpose.
Third, That ten entire sections of
land, to be selected by tie Governor of
said State, Ill legal Subdivisions, shall be
granted to said State for the purpose Of
completing the public buildings, or for
the erection of others at the scat of Coy
ernment, under the direction of the
Legislature thereof.
Fourth, That ali salt springs within
said State not exceeding twelve in
number, with six sections Of land ad-
j%oiuiug, as contiguous as may be to
each, shall be granted to said State for
its use; the same to be collected by the
Governor thereof within pie year after
tie admission of said State, ard, when
so selected, to be used or disposed of Oh
such terms, conditions, and regulatiors
as the Legislature shall direct: PrOCt-
dR, That no salt spring or land, the
right whereof is now vested in any indi-
vidual or individuals, or which may be
hereafter confirmed or adiudgcd to any
individual or individuals, shall by this
article be granted to said State.
Ffh That FIVE per contain ofthe
net roceeds ct al public lands lying
within said State, which shall be sold by
Congress after the admission Of said
State into the Union, after deduetirg
all the expenses incident to the same,
shall be p1id to said State, for the pur-
pose of making public roaA3 and internal
improvements, as the Legislature shall
direct: Prouidcd, The foregoing prop
osition herein offered are Oh the condi-
ton, that che said State slal. nrayide,
by Il clause i'll said Constitution, or an
ordinance, irrevocab,e without the CON
sent Of the United States, that said
State shall never Interfere with the PR
mary disposal of the soil within the
same, by the United States, or with any
regulations Congress may find necessary
for securing the title in said soil to
L0na fde purchasers thereof, and that no
tax shall be imposed on land, belonging
to the United States, and that in no case
shall nonresident propriotors be taxed
higher than residents.
SEC. 20. Ind he At further enacted
That the President be, aud is hereby
authorized aud empowered, upon appli-
cation of the said Board of Commits
sioners to employ such military force
according to ex'sting laws, IS he shall
deem necessary TO secure the f~ai,lfu!
execution of the provisions Of this act.