The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-08
fPUBLrc-No. Al
pprOved, December %, 1862.

AN ACT for the admission Of the State Of
West Virginia" into TO the Union
and for other purposes.
WHEREAS the people inhabiting that
portion of Virginia known as West Vir-
ginia did by convention assembled in
the city of Wheeling on the twenty sixth
Of November, eighteen hundred and
sixty. frame for themselves a Con-
stitution with the view Of becoming a
separate and indepenent State aud
whereas at general election held in the
counties composing the territory afore-
said on the third day Of May last, the
said Constitution was approved and
adopted by the qualified voters Of the
proposed State; and whereas the Leg
islature Of Virginia, by an act passed
on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen
hundred and sixty two, did give its con-
scent to. the formation of new State
within the jurisdiction of the said State
Of Virginia, TO be kno wn by the name of
West Virginia, and 70 embrace the fol-
towing named counties, to-wit: Han
cock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshal, Wetzel
Marion, Monongalis, Preston, Taylor,
Tyler, Peasants, Ritchie, Doddridge,
Harrison, Wood, jackson, Writ, Roane
Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker,
Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Ma.
son, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas,
Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming,
Mercer, Mcdowell, Webster, PocRhontas,
Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, Monroe,
Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and MoE-
gan; and whereas both the Convention
and the Legislature aforesaid have re-
quested that the new State should be ad .
mitted into the Union, and the Constitu-
| ton aforesaid being republican in form,
Congress doth hereby consent that the
said forty eight counties may be formed
into separate and independent State
| Therefore
BE il enacted by the Senate and House o.
| Representatives Of the United States Of America
in Congress assembled, That the State oil
West Virginia be and is hereby declared
to be one of the United States of Amer.
lea, and admitted into the Union on an
equal footing with the original States il
all respects whatever, and until the next
general census shall be entitled to three
members in the House of Representative:
of the United States: PROVIDED aloays
|
after the proclamation of the President
of the United States hereinafter provided
for.
1t being represented TO Congress tina
since the Convention of the twenty sixth
of November, eighteen hundred and six.
ty-one, that framed and proposed th,
Constitution for the said State of Yves
Virginia, the people thereof have ex
pressed a wish to change the seventh
section of the eleventh article of sale
Constitution By striking out the SAM
and inserting the following in its place
viz. "The children of slaves born with
in the limits of this State after the fourth
day of July, eighteen hundred and six
ty. three, shall be free; and that al
slaves within the said State who shall
at the time aforesaid, be under the ag,
Of ten years, shall be free when they ar
rive at the age Of twenty one years anC
all slaves over ten and under twenty
one years shall be free when they arriv
at the age Of twenty. five years; and n,
slave shall be permitted TO come into tn
State for permanent residence therein :
Therefore
Sec. 2, BE 10 further enacted, Tha
whenever the people of West Virgins
shall, through their said Convention, an,
by vote TO be taken at an election Il
be held within the limits of the sal,
State, at such time as the Convention
may provide, make and ralify the chang
aforesaid, and properly certify the sam
under the hand Of the President Of tn
Convention, il shall be lawful for th
President of the United States to issu
his proclamation stating the fact, an,
thereupon this act shall take eife 1t an,
be in force from and after sixty day
from the date of said proclamation.
Approved, December 81, 1862.