Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-05-06

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We publish this morning the bill pro-
viding for the conditional admission of
Kansas. Let all read it earthly:
Whereas, the people of the Territory of
Kansas did, by convention of delegates
assembled at Lecompton, on the 7th of No
vember, 1857. for that purpose, form for
lemselvesa Constitution and State govern
ment, which Constitution is Republican;
and whereas. at the same time and place,
said convention did adopt an ordinance,
which said ordinance asserts that Kansas,
when admitted as State, will have an un-
doubted right to tax all the lands within her
limits belonging to the United States, and
proposes to relinquish said asserted right
if certain conditions set forth in said ordi-
nance be accepted and agreed to by the
Congress of The United States, and where
as; the said Constitution and ordinance
have been presented to the Congress of the
United States by order of Inc Convention,
and admission of said Territory in to the
Union there on as State requested; and
ahereas, said ordinance is not acceptable to
Congress, and IL as desirable TO ascertain
echether tie people Of Kansas concur in the
changes in said ordinance hereinafter stat
ed, and desire admission into tie Union as
State herein proposed; therefore.
Be IT ENACTED, &c, That the State of
Kansas be and is hereby admitted into The
Union on an equal footing with original
States in all respects whatever, but upon this
fundamental precedent, namely: That the
question of admission with the following
proposition, lieu of the ordinance framed at
Lecompton, shall be submitted TO the vote
of the people of Kansas, and assented by
them, or the majority of the voters voting
at an election to be held for that purpose,
namely: That the following proposition be
and the same are hereby offered to said peo-
pie of Kansas for thir free acceptation,
DC.
AND BE FURTHER ENACTED. That the fol-
lowing proposition be and the came are
hereby, offered to the said people of Kans-
as for their free acceptance or rejection,
which, if accepted, shall be obligatory up
on the United States and upon the said
State,of Kansas, to wit,
| FIRST, That section numbered sixteen
ana shirty-six in every township of public
lands in sad State. and whore either ofsaid
sections. or any parts thereof has been
sold or otherwise disposed OF, other lands
equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as
may be, shall be granted to the saia otato
for the use of schools.
SECOND, That seventy-two sections OF lanI
shall be set a part and reserved for the use
aud support of State University, to be Sc.
lected by the Governor of the State, sub
iect to the approval of the Commissioner Of
the general land Office, and to be appropri
atcd and applied in such manner as the Leg
islature Of the said State may prescribe for
the purpose aforesaid, but for no other pur-
pose.
THIRD: That ten entire sections of land,
to be selected by the Governor of said State
in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to
said State for the purpose of completing
the public buildings, or for the erections
of others at the seat of Government, under
the direction of the Legislature thereof
FOURTH: That all the salt springs within
the said State, mot exceeding twelve in num-
Der, with six sections of land adjoining
or as contiguous as may be to each. shall
be granted to said State for its use, the same
to be selected by the Governor thereof,
within one year after the admission of said
State, and so selected to be used or dispos-
ed of on such terms, conditions and regu-
lations as the Legislature shall direct; pro-
vided that no salt spring, or land, the right
whereof is now vested in any individual or
individuals, or which may be hereafter con-
6rmed or adjudged to any individual or in
dividuals, shall by this article be granted
to said State.
FIFTH: That five per centum of the pro-
ceeds of all public lands lying within the
said State, which shall be sold by Congress
after the admission of said State into the
Union, after deducting all the expenses in
cident to the same, shall be paid to said
State, for the purpose of making public road
and other internal Improvements, as the
/ Legislature shall direct, prouided: That the
foregoing propositions herein offered to the
State of Kansas shall never interfere with
the primary disposal of the land Of the Uni
ted States, or with any regulations Con-
gress may find necessary for securing title
in said soil to bona tide purchasers thereof.
and that no tax shall be imposed on land be-
longing to the u s., and that in 10 case
shall non resident proprietors be taxed high
er than resident.
SIXTH: And that said State shall never
tax the lands or the property of the United
States. es
SEcTioN /. That the State arkansas, be,
and is hereby admitted into the Union. on
on onua1 footing with the ORIGINAL States