The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-05-06

ference. Tesds as follows:
Whereas, The people Of Kansas did, BY
n convention of delegates, assembled at
Te compton on the seventh day Of Novem.
bsr. 1887. for that purpose, form for them.
selves Consultation and State Government,
which Constitution is republican In torm.
And nhefeas, At the same time and place
the saiG Convention did adopt an ordinance,
which said ordinance asserts that Kansas,
when admittedsas State, will have the un-
doubted right 10 tax lands within her limits1 I
belonging to the United States, aud propo
ses 70 relinquish the said asserted right, if
certain conditions set forth in sofd ordinance
be accepted and agreed to by the Congress
of the United States. e.. zee,
And Ghereas, The said Constitution and
ordinance have been presented to Congress
bv The order Of the said Convention, and
sdmis ion Of the said Territory into the
Union thereof, as State, is requested.
And uhereas, The snid ordinance is not
acceptable to Congress; and it is desirable
to ascertain whether the people OF Kansas
concur in the changes in said ordinance
hereinafter stated, and desire admission In.
to the Union as State, as herein prepared.
Therefore, be ii enacted, ETC., That the
State Of Kansas be, and is hereby, admitted
into the Union on on equal footing with the
original States, in all respects whatsoever;
but upon this fundamental condition or pre-
cedent, namely, that the question Of odmls-
sion with the following proposition, in I'eu
of the ordinance framed at Lecompton, be
submitted to the vote of the people Of Kan.
sas, and asserted to by them or q majority
of the voters voting at the election to be
held for that purpose; namely, that the fol.
lowing propositions be, and the same are
hereby offered to the people of Kansas for
their free acceptance or rejection, which, If
ac accepted, shall be obligatory upon the Unit.
ed States and upon the said State of Kan
Bas, to wit:
First. That sections numbered sixteen
and thirty six in every township of public
| lands in said State, and where either of said
sections, or any part thereof, has been sold
or otherwise disposed Of, other lands, equiv.
ulent thereto, und as contiguous as may be,
shall be granted to the said State for the use
of schools.
Third. That ten entire sections Of land,
to be selected by the Governor Of said Sttte.
in legal subdivisions, shall be granted tc
said State, for the purpose of completing
, the public buildings, or for the erection o
others at the seat of Government, under the
direction of the Legislature thereof.
Fourth. That all the salt springs within
the sid State, not exceeding twelve in mum
Der, with six sections of land adjoining, o.
, as contiguous as may be to each, shall bt
f granted to said State, for its use, the sam'
to be selected by the Governor thereof with
in one year after the admission Of salt
State, and when SO selected, to be e:ed g
disposed of on such terms, conditions ant
regulations as the Legislature shall direct
Provided, That no salt spring, or land, tht
; right whereof is now vested in any i.divid
r ua or individuals, or which may be hereaf
: ter confirmed or adjudged to any indIvidua
6 or individuals, shall by this article be grant
cd to said State.
) Fifth. That FIVE per tentum Of the pro
' cecds Of the sales OF all public lands lying
within the said State, which shall be soil
by Congress after the admission of salt
State into the Union, after deducting all ex
ptnses incident to the same, shall be pail
t to snid State, for the purpose of mukins
pubic roads and improvements, as the Leg
islature shall direct. Provided. That the
foregoing propositions herein offered to tn
State OF Kansas shall never interfere witt
the primary disposal Of the lands Of the
United States. or with any regulations Con
gress may find necessary for securing title
in said soil to bona ,fde purchasers thereof
and that no tx shall be imposed on lane
F belonging to the United States and that in
no case shull nonresident propretors BE-
taxed higher than residents. ..
, SIKH. That the said State shall neve,
tax the lands or property of the United
! States in that State. ..,..-.
SECTION l. At the said election the vot
ing shall be by ballot and by endorsing en-
Lis ballot as each voter may please, "propo
sition accepted" or "propositon rejected
, Should the majority OF the votes cast be fol
the proposition accepted" the President o
the United States, as soon as the fact is duly
made known to him, shall announce the
same by proclamation, aud thereafter, ant
+ without any further proceedings on the par
of Congress, the admission of the State o
Kansas into the Union, on On equal footing
) with the original States, in all respects
" whatever, shall be complete and absolute
and said State shall be entitled to one mem
bcr in the House OF Representatives in thu
Congress of the United States until tht
next census be taken by the Federal Gov
ernment. But, should majority of thu
,. votes cast for the "proposition rejected" i
shuH be deemed and held that the people o
Kansas do not desire admission into th
Union with said Constitution, under the con
ditions act forth in said proposition; and il
, that event the people Of said Territory ar,
= hereby authorized and empowered to form
for themselves a Constitution and Stat
Government by the name of the State o
Kansas, according to the Federal Constltu
2 ton, and may elect delegates for that pur
pose whenever, and not before, it is ascer
tained, by census duly and legally taken
that the population Of said Territory equal
3 the ratio Of representation required for
member Of the House of Representatives o
the United States; and whenever thereafte
such delegates shall assemble in Conven
ton, they shall first determine by vot
S whether it is the wish of the people of tn,
proposed State to be admitted into the UnioI
: at that time, and II 80, shall proceed t
form Constitution, and take ell necessary
= steps for the establishment of State Gov
b ernment, in conformity with the Fedora
= Constitution. subject to such limitations AM
, restrictions, as to the mode and manner o
! its approval or ratification by the people o
: the proposed State, as they may have pre-
4 scribed by law, and shall be entitled to ad
: mission into the Union as State, unde
3 such Constitution thus fairly and legal!
: made, with or without slavery, as such Con
} stitution may prescribe. If
D SEcTIoN 2. And be it further enacted
. That, for the purpose Of insuring, as far a
possible, that the elections authorized b.