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cuous as NAV he. shall he granted

to said State for the use of schools.
Second. That tbs seventy-two sections
or two entire townships of land set apart
aud reserved for the use and support of
university by an act of Congress- approx
ed ON the 18th day of June, 1898, enti-
tied ian act concerning Seminary of
Learning in the Territory of Wisconsin,"
are hereby granted and conveyed to the
State, to be appropriated solely to the use
and' support of such university. in such
manner as the Legislature may prescribe.
Third. That ten entire scctons of land
are to he selected and located under the
direction of the Legislature, in legal divi.
sions of not less than one quarter section,
from any of the unappropriated lands be-
longing to the United States within the
said State, are hereby granted to said
State for the purpose Of completing the
public buildings of the said State, or for
the erection of others at the seat of gov
ernment, under the direction Of the Leg
isla:ure thereof
Fourth. That all salt springs within
said State, not exceeding twelve in num-
ber, with six sections of land adjoining,
or as contiguous as may be to each, shall
be granted 10 the State for its use; the
same to be selected by the Legislature
thereof, within one year after the admis-
sion of said State; and when SO selected
to be used or disposed of on such terms,
conditions, aud regulations, as the Legis-
lature shall direct: Prouided, That no
salt spring or land the right whereof is
now vested in any individual or indiv.d-
| uals, or which may hereafter be confirmed
or adjudged 10 any individual or indiyid-
uals, shall, by this section, be granted to
the State.
Fifth. That five per cent. of the net
proceeds of sales of all public lands lying
within the said State, which have been or
shall be sold by Congress, from and after
the admission of said State into the Union,
after deducting all the expenses incident
to the same, shall be paid to the said State,
for the purpose Of making public roads and
canals in the same, as the Legislature may
direct: Provided, That the foregoing
propositions herein offered are on the con-
dition that the said Convention which
shall form the constitution of said State
shall provide, by clause in said consti-
| tuition, or al ordinance, irrevocablc with
out the consent of the United States, that
said State shall never interfere with the
/ primary disproval of the soil within the
same by the United States, nor with any
regulations Congress may find necessary
| for securing the title in such soil to bona
| fde purchasers thereof; and that no tax
shall be imposed on lands the property of
the United States; and that in no case shall
nonresident proprictors be taxed higher
than residents.
Approved Aug. 9th 1S46.-(See Stat
utes at Large U. S. Vot 9payc 5s.)
There is in addition to the above
striking similarity in their mode of admis-
sion into the Union. The following is
section four of can act for the admission
of Wisconsin into the Union.
An Act for the Admission Of Wisconsin
into the Union.
Sec 4. AnG 5s IL further enacted
That it is made and declared to be a fun
damental condition Of the admission Of
said State of Wisconsin into 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 assentcd to by the qualified cleo.
tors, in the manner and at the times pre-
scrlbed in the ninth section of the twen-
tietn article of said constitution. Aud as
soon as assent shall be given, the Presi-
dent of the United States shall announce
the same 10y proclamation; and therefrom,
and without any further proceedings OH
} the part of Congress, the admission Of
said State of Wisconsin into the Union,
on an equal footing in all respects what
ever with the original States, shall be con.
sidered as complete. Approved March
3, ls47.-(.See Vol. 9 page l7s Statutes
at Larye.)
In the first place Congress required the
J Convention of Wisconsin to insert clause
in their Constitution, or ordinance, &C.
cepting this grant with its conditions
and afterwards required them to submit
!, the Constitution and ordinance to the peo
ple for their ratification. So far as thi.
, land grant is concerned there is not {
shade of difference between the case o
Kansas and that of Wisconsin. The peo
| pie of Wisconsin could not accept tht
| grant of lands without at the same tim,
f accepting the Constitution. Both hat
/ to live or die together. If they rejectct
the Constitution they at the same time
3 and by the same ballot rejected the gran
of lands. Was there bribery in this? /
] SO where were these men who now affec
t horror at the Kansas grant? Why wa
: it not exposed and denounced? Instea
y Of doing this those of them who were i
f Congress voted for it. aud all, both in an
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