Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-23

ton IN which our folly will have forever
involved us.
APPENDIX.
MICHIGAN.
Note A.-"An act to establish the
Northern boundary line of the State of
Ohio, and to provide for the admission of
the State of Michigan into the Union upon
the conditions therein erpreSsd.'
''Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
that the Constitution and State Govern
ment which the people of Michigan have
formed for themselves, be, and the same
is, hereby accepted, ratified and confirm
ed; and the said State of Michigan shall
be, and is, hereby declared to be one of
the United States of America, and is here
by admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, in all
respects whatsoever: Prorided dl1cavs,
and this admission is upon the cypress con-
ditiOn that the said State shall consist of,
and have jurisdiction over all the territory
included within the following boundaries,
to-wit: Beginning, &C., &c.
''Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That as a compliance 10ith the .tundQmem-
tai condition of admission, contained in
the last preceding section of this act, the
boundaries of the said State of Michigan,
as in that section described, declared and
established, shall receive the assent of a
Convention of Delegates elected by the
people of said State, for the sole purpose
of giving the assent herein required and
as soon as the assent herein required shall
be given, the President of the United
States shall announce the same by procla-
nation; and thereupOn without any fur
Their proceeding ON the part of Congress
the admission of the said State into the
Union, as one of the United States of
America, on an equal footing with the
original States, in all respects whatever,
shall be considered as complete.
WISCONSIN.
Note Bin 1876 Congress passed what
is called an enabling act'' for the adj
mission of this State. The 18th section of
that act is as follows:-
''That the following propositions are
hereby submitted to the Convention which
shall assemble for the pupose of forming n
Constitution for the State of Wisconsin,
for acceptance or rejection; and if accep-
ted by said Convention, and ratified by an
article in said Constitution, they shall be
obligatory on the United States. n-Then
follow five distinct propositions and re-
strctlve conditions, granting certain lands,
per cemtGge on sales oflands, &c, &C., the
whole concluding with proviso in the
following words: "Lr0ridcd, that the fore
going propositions herein offered are on
the condition that the said Convention
which shall torm'th Constitution of said
State, shall provide by clause in said
Constitution, or an ordinance, irrcvocable
without the consent of the United States.
that the said State shall never interfere
with the primary disposal of the soil with
III the same by the United States, nor
with any regulations Congress may find
necessary for securing the title in such
soil to bona .ttde purchasers thereof; and
that no tax shall be imposed on lands the
property of the United States; and that
in no case shall nonresident proprietors
be taxed higher than residents
The act Of Congress finally admitting
the State of Wisconsin, approved March
), 1917, contained the following sections:
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the assent of Congress is hereby given to
the resolutions by said Convention, and
appended to said Constitution, and the
acts of Congress referred to in said reso-
lutions arc hereby amended, so that the
lands thereby granted and the proceeds
thereof, and the five per centum Of the net
proceeds of the public lands, may be held
and disposed of by said State in the man
ner and for the purposes recommended bv
said Convention: hTocideI, Hogever, that
the liabilities incurred by the Territorial
Government of Wisconsin, under the act
entitled San act to grant quantity of land
to the Territory of Wisconsin for the pur-
poses OF opening a canal to connect the wa.
tiers OF Lake Michigan with those of Rock
river, shall be paid and discharged by
sad States and prOUided further, that the
even numbered sections along the route of
SAID proposed canal shall be brought into
market and sold at the same minimum.
price, and subject to the same rights of pre-.
emPtion to all the settlers thereon at the
passage of this act, as other public lands of
the United States.
Sec. 4 And be it further enacted. That
1t Is made and declared to be a fun1nmen.
tai condition of the admission 0fthe State
OF Wisconsin into the Union, thatthe Con
sttuton adopted ut Madison on tho 18th.
day OF December, 1916, shall be assented
10 Dy the qualified electors in the manner
ana Mt the time prescribed in the 9th sec
t!on OF the 10th article of said Constitn.
ton' ana as soon as such assent shall he
gwen the President of the United St1fes
sn1'i announce the same by proclamation.
and thSrefrom, and without any further
proceedings on the part of Congress, the
ADMISSION ~ of said State of Wisconsin into
the Union, on an equal footing in all re.
sPeGtS whatever with the original States
shall be considered as complete
KANSAS.
Note G.-"wHEREAs, the naonIa of
Kansas did by Convention Of fSS SIe.s. ot
assembled at Lecompton the eth dav No
yemher, 1857 for that pnrnose Scs,,, ~ w.
themselves Constitution and state co 1,E
eminent whichis republican; and whereas
at the same time and place said Cove ,o'