Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1863-07-09

sixty one frame for thonselgss-a Consultation viii
view Of sec0uing ssparate and independcr.
counties composing the territory Aforesaid on the
third dag Of Nay last the said Constitution Wal ap-
proved and adopted " lho rnalisd votcss q ltt
proposed State; and whereas the Legislature 81
Virginia By az act passed she thirteentA iay IF
Nav eighteen HUNDRED and ssEig-lBo- did eive fts
consent 70 the flrmaton-of new State within ti8
jurisdiction Of tna sid State Of Virginia 90 be
known By the maize of West Virginia. and i6 en-
brace the following named counties 90 vii; han-
cock, Brooke, Ohio, Mar hall, Welzsl, Marion, Mo-
Eoddridgs, Weed, Jackson, Writ. R0aue, :Calhoga,
GlImer, Barbour, Tucker, Lsg 8, B.axt n, Upsaa1,
Randolph, Mason, Putnam, kanaHka, CiUy, AitaG-
las, Cabei, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, 4le.-
cor, Mcdowell, Webster. Pooahonlas, fayette I-l-
leigh, Greenbrar Monroe, Pendlaton. Hardy, amp
shire, and Morgan and where's both she Corren-
ment and the Legislature aforesaid have requested
that the new State should be admitted int the
Union and the Constitution aforesaid being repuo-
liean in form, Congress dosh hereby consent thas
the said forty eight counties may be formed into
sspera to and indef fendent State. Thorsforo-
Be e enacted b iis Senate and Houss Of hspra-
ssntatiUe Of he Unifsd Stasesof Au,criea in Cese
grsss assenblsd, That the State Of West FireiEis
be- and is hereby declared to be one Of the United
States Of America and admitted into the Union Q .
an equal footing with the original States in Al ras-
pscts whateAer, and until the ncxs general oausus
shall be entitled to three members In the House of
Represa utatsVes Of the United STATES. ProTdsg n
ways, That this act shall not take eject until efef
che proclamation Of the President Of the l. ated
States hereinafter provided for.
It being represented to Congress that since tao
Convention Of the tWsnty-sixth Of November sigh-
teen hundred and sixty ono that framed and pro-
posed the Constitution for the said State Of West
Virginis, the people thereof have expressed visa
70 change the seventh section Of the eleventh art ole
Of said Constitution BY striking out the sams aud
inserting the following in its place, viz "Ihs chill
dred Of slaves born within the limits Of this Slat5
after the fourth day Of July, eighteen hundred ani
sixty-three she'll qe free; and that all slaves within
the said State who shall at the tmo aforesaid, bo
under the aga Of ten years, shah be free when thev
arrive &C the age Of tHentyOne years. and eli slaves
over ten and under tWcntyons years shall Be fres
when they arrivest the age Of twenty-five years,
and 10 slave shall be permitted to CONS into ths
State for permanent residence thereinf' Ther9.
fore
Sec, g Be It further enacted That whenever ths
people Of West Nrginio shall through their sait
Convention and By vote 20 be taken al an election
70 be held within the limits Of the said State IS
such time as the Convention may provide, make,
and ratify the change aforesaid and properly ocrt-
fy the sans under the hand Of the president Of the
Convention lt shall be lawful for she Presidentof
the United Shtes to Issue his proclamation stating
the fact and thersupon thisact shall take effect had
Be in force from and after sixty days from the dals
Of said proclamation.
APPEovED, DecembsE 81, 1852.