Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-01

extinguished by treaty between the United States
and such Indians, or to include any territory which
by treaty with such Indian tribe, is not, without
the consent Of said tribe, to he included within
the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State
or Territory: but oil such territory shall be ex-
cepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no
part of the State Of Kansas, until said tribe shall
signify their assent to the President of the United
States to be included within said State, or to affect
the authority of the Government of the United
States to make any regulations respecting such
Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by
treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have
been competent to make if this act had never pas
scd.
SEC. 3. And be il further enacted, That the
State of Kansas is admitted into the Union upon
the express condidition that said State shall never
interfere with the primary disposal of the public
lands, or with any regulations which Congress
may find necessary for securing the title in said
lands to the bona fde purchaser and grantees
thereof, or impose or levy any tax, assessment or
imposition of any description whatever, upon
them or other property Of the United States with
in the limits of said State; and that nothing IN
this act shall be construed to abridge or infringe
any right of the people asserted IN the Constltu-
ton of Kansas at all times to alter, reform, or
abolish their form of Government in such manner
as they may think proper-Congress hereby dis
claiming any authority to intervene or declare the
construction of the Constitution Of any State, ex-
cept to see that it be Republican in form, and not
in conflict with the Constitution of the United
States; and nothing in this act shall be construed
rs m assent by Congress to all or my of the pro-
positions or claims contained in the ordinance
annexed to the said Constitution of the people OF
Kansas, nor to deprive the said State of Kansas OF
the same grants, if hereafter made, which were
contained in the act Of Congress entitled can net
to authorize the people of. the Territory OF Min
nesota to form a Constitution and State Govern
ment preparatory to admission into the Union On
On equal footing with the original States" approx
ed February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and
fifty seven.
SEC. g.. And be further enacted, That until the
next general census shall be taken and anappoint'
ment of representatives made, the State of Kan
sas shall be entitled to one Representative in the
House of Representatives of the United States.
SEC. 4. And be it, further enacted, That from and
after the admission of the State Of Kansas, as
herein before provided, all the laws of the United
States which are not locally inapplicable shall
have the same force and effect within that State
as in other States of the Union and the said
State is hereby constituted n judicial district OF
the United States, within which q district court,
with the like powers and jurisdiction as the Dis
trict Court of the United States for the district of
Iowa, shall be established the judge, attorney
and marshal of the United States for the said dis
trict of Kansas shall reside within the same, and
shall be entitled to the same compensation, as the
judge, attorney, and marshal Of the district OF
Iowa.
The vote being taken, result was announced
yeas SO, nays 25--as follows:
Yeas Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Bright, Bigler,
Benjamin, Biggs, Brown, Clay, Evans, Fitch,
Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond, Henderson,
Houston, Hunter, ~Iverson, Johnson of Arkansas,
Johnson of Tennessee, Jones, Kennedy, Mallory,
Mason, Pearce, Polk, Sebastian, Slidell, Thomp-
son of Kentucky, Thomson of New Jersey,
Toombs, Wright and Yulee-33.
Ndys--Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Chandler,
Clark, C%ollamer, Crittenden, Dixon, Doolittle,
Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Hale,
Hamlin, Harlan, King, Pugh, Seward, Simmons,
Stuart, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson
25.
Absent, or not voting-Messrs. Bates, Came
ron, Davis and Reid.