An Act to authorize the issuance of 240,000 special note immigrant visas, and for other purposes
PL 83-203 (H.R.6481), enacted 08/07/1953

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after the date of its enactment: Provided^ however^ That immediately 
following the enactment of this Act the Farm Credit Administration 
shall proceed with the designation of nominees as provided in section 
Ante, p. 390. 
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^ hereof and the members of the Federal Farm Credit Board 
shall be appointed or designated sufficiently in advance of the effective 
date of this Act to enable said Board to prepare to enter upon the dis-
charge of its duties upon the effective date of this Act; and after the 
effective date of this Act, the compensation and expenses of the Board 
members shall be paid, as provided herein, from the date on which 
their appointments became effective, out of any funds available for 
the payment of administrative expenses of the Farm Credit Adminis-
tration. 
SEC. 19. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of 
this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, 
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^^^- ^^- (^) I^ ^^y provision of this Act, or the application thereof 
to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the 
Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circum-
stances, shall not be affected thereby. 
(b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly 
reserved. 
Approved August 6, 1953. 
Public Law 203 
CHAPTER 336 
August 7,1953 
A N A C T 
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Yov the relief of certain refugees, and orphans, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Art^'of^iltsi!*^^*^ United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Refugee Relief Act of 1953". 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 
2. (a) "Refugee" means any person in a country or area 
which is neither Communist nor Communist-dominated, who because 
of persecution, fear of persecution, natural calamity or military oper-
ations is out of his usual place of abode and unable to return thereto, 
who has not been firmly resettled, and who is in urgent need of assist-
ance for the essentials of life or for transportation. 
(b) "Escapee" means any refugee who, because of persecution or 
fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion, 
fled from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or other Commu-
nist, Communist-dominated or Communist-occupied area of Europe 
including those parts of Germany under military occupation by the 
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and who cannot return thereto 
because of fear of persecution on account of race, religion or political 
opinion. 
(c) "German expellee" means any refugee of German ethnic origin 
residing in the area of the German Federal Republic, western sector 
of Berlin, or in Austria who was born in and was forcibly removed 
from or forced to flee from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, 
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics, Yugoslavia, or areas provisionally under 
the administration or control or domination of any such countries, 
except the Soviet zone of military occupation of Germany. 
(d) "Administrator" means the administrator of the Bureau of 
Security and Consular Affairs established in the Department of State 
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pursuant to subsection (b) of section 104 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act. 
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SPECIAL NONQUOTA VISAS ; NUMBERS 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be issued two hundred five 
thousand special nonquota immigrant visas to aliens, specified in 
section 4 of this Act, seeking to enter the United States as immigrants 
and to their spouses and their unmarried sons or daughters under 
twenty-one years of age, including stepsons or stepdaughters and 
sons or daughters adopted prior to July 1, 1953, if accompanying 
them. 
ALLOCATION OF SPECIAL NONQUOTA VISAS 
SEC. 4. (a) Special nonquota immigrant visas authorized to be 
issued under section 3 of this Act shall be allotted as follows: 
(1) Not to exceed fifty-five thousand visas to German expellees 
residing in the area of the German Federal Republic or in the western 
sectors of Berlin or in Austria: Provided, That the visas issued under 
this paragraph shall be issued only in the German Federal Republic 
or in the western sector of Berlin or in Austria. 
(2) Not to exceed thirty-five thousand visas to escapees residing in 
the area of the German Federal Republic or the western sectors of 
Berlin or in Austria: Provided, That the visas issued under this para-
graph shall be issued only in the German Federal Republic or in the 
western sector of Berlin or in Austria. 
(3) Not to exceed ten thousand visas to escapees residing within 
the European continental limits of the member nations of the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization or in Turkey, Sweden, Iran or in the 
Free Territory of Trieste and who are not nationals of the area in 
which they reside: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in the 
area or areas mentioned in this paragraph. 
(4) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees who (a) during 
World War II were members of the armed forces of the Republic of 
Poland, (b) were honorably discharged from such forces, (c) reside on 
the date of the enactment of this Act in the British Isles, and (d) have 
not acquired British citizenship. 
(5) Not to exceed forty-five thousand visas to refugees of Italian 
ethnic origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Italy 
or in the Free Territory of Trieste: Provided, That such visas shall be 
issued only in the area or areas mentioned in this paragraph. 
(6) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to persons of Italian ethnic 
origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Italy or in 
the Free Territory of Trieste, who qualify under any of the prefer-
ences specified in paragra'ph (2), (3) or (4) of section 203 (a) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act: Provided, That such visas shall 
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be issued only in Italy or in the Free Territory of Trieste. 
(7) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to refugees of Greek ethnic 
origin residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Greece: 
Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in Greece. 
(8) Not to exceed two thousand visas to persons of Greek ethnic 
origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Greece, who 
qualify under any of the preferences specified in paragraph (2), (3) 
or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: 
Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in Greece. 
(9) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to refugees of Dutch ethnic 
origin residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in continental 
Netherlands: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in con-
tinental Netherlands. 
(10) Not to exceed two thousand visas to persons of Dutch ethnic 
origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in continental 
Netherlands, who qualify under any of the preferences specified in 
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paragraph (2), (3) or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act: Provided^ That such visas shall be issued only in 
continental Netherlands. 
(11) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees, residing within 
the district of an American consular office in the Far East: Pro'vided^ 
That such visas shall be issued only in said consular office district and 
only to refugees who are not indigenous to the area described in this 
paragraph. 
(12) Not to exceed three thousand visas to refugees, residing within 
the district of an American consular office in the Far East: Provided^ 
That such visas shall be issued only in said consular office district and 
only to refugees who are indigenous to the area described in this 
paragraph. 
(13) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees of Chinese ethnic 
origin whose passports for travel to the United States are endorsed by 
the Chinese National Government or its authorized representatives. 
(14) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees who on the date 
of the enactment of this Act are eligible to receive assistance from 
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees 
in the Near East: Provided^ That such visas shall be issued only in the 
area described in this paragraph. 
Spouses, etc. 
(b) ^he allotments provided in subsection (a) of this section shall 
be available for the issuance of immigrant visas to the spouses and 
unmarried sons or daughters under twenty-one years of age, including 
stepsons or stepdaughters and sons or daughters adopted prior to 
July 1, 1953, referred to in section 3 of this Act, of persons referred 
to in subsection (a) of this section. 
ORPHANS 
SEC. 5. (a) Not to exceed' four thousand special nonquota immi-
grants visas may be issued to eligible orphans as defined in this Act 
who are under ten years of age at the time the visa is issued: Provided^ 
That not more than two such special nonquota immigrant visas may 
be issued to eligible orphans adopted or to be adopted by any one 
United States citizen and spouse, unless necessary to prevent the 
separation of brothers or sisters. 
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(b) When used in this Act the term "eligible orphan" shall mean 
an alien child (1) who is an orphan because of the death or dis-
appearance of both parents, or because of abandonment or desertion 
by, or separation or loss from, both parents, or who has only one 
parent due to the death or disappearance of, abandonment or deser-
tion by, or separation or loss from the other parent and the remaining 
parent is incapable of providing care for such orphan and has in 
writing irrevocably released him for emigration and adoption; (2) 
(a) who has been lawfully adopted abroad by a United States citizen 
and spouse, or (b) for whom assurances, satisfactory to the consular 
officer to whom a visa application on behalf of the orphan is made, 
have been given by a United States citizen and spouse that if the 
orphan is admitted into the United States they will adopt him in the 
United States and will care for him properly; and (3) who is 
• ineligible for admission into the United States solely because the non-
preference portion of the quota to which he would otherwise be 
chargeable is oversubscribed by applicants registered on the consular 
waiting list at the time his visa application is made: Provided^ That 
no natural parent of any eligible orphan who shall be admitted into 
the United States pursuant to this Act shall thereafter, by virtue of 
suicfVioinote. such parentage, be accorded any right, privilege, or status under 
the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
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(c) The assurances required in this section shall be in lieu of the 
assurances required in section 7 of this Act. 
ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS 
SEC. 6. Any alien who establishes that prior to July 1, 1953, he 
lawfully entered the United States as a bona fide nonimmigrant and 
that because of events which have occurred subsequent to his entry into 
the United States he is unable to return to the country of his birth, or 
nationality, or last residence, because of persecution or fear of perse-
cution on account of race, religion, or political opinion, may, within 
one year after the effective date of this Act, apply to the Attorney 
General of the United States for an adjustment of his immigration 
status. If the Attorney General shall, upon consideration of all the 
facts and circumstances of the case, determine that such alien has been 
of good moral character for the preceding fiive years and that the alien 
was physically present in the United States on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and is otherwise qualified under all other provisions 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act except that the quota to which 
he is chargeable is oversubscribed, the Attorney General shall report to 
the Congress all the pertinent facts in the case. 
If, during the session 
of the Congress in which a case is reported or prior to the end of the 
session of the Congress next following rhe session in which a case is 
reported, the Congress passes a concurrent resolution stating in sub-
stance that it approves the granting of the status of an alien lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence to such alien, the Attorney General 
is authorized, upon the payment of the required visa fee, which shall 
be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the account of 
miscellaneous receipts, to record the alien's lawful admission for 
permanent residence as of the date of the passage of such concurrent 
resolution. If, within the above specified time, the Congress does not 
pass such a concurrent resolution, or, if either the Senate or the House 
of Representatives passes a resolution stating in substance that it does 
not approve the granting of the status of an alien lawfully admitted 
for permanent residence, the Attorney General shall thereupon deport 
such alien in the manner provided by law: Provided^ That the provi-
sions of this section shall not be applicable to any aliens admitted into 
the United States under the provisions of Public Law 584, Seventy-
ninth Congress, second session (60 Stat. 754), Public Law 402, 
Eightieth Congress, second session (62 Stat. 6) : Provided 
further^ 
That the number of aliens who shall be granted the status of aliens 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence pursuant to this section 
shall not exceed five thousand. 
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ASSURANCES 
SEC. 7. (a) Except as otherwise herein provided, no visa shall be 
issued to any alien under this Act unless an assurance, in accordance 
with regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act, shall first have 
been given by a citizen or citizens of the United States that such 
alien, if admitted into the United States, will be suitably employed 
without displacing some other person from employment and that 
such alien and the members of such alien's family who shall accom-
pany such alien and who propose to live with such alien will not 
become public charges and will have housing without displacing some 
other person from such housing. The spouse and unmarried dependent 
sons and daughters under twenty-one years of age, including stepsons 
and stepdaughters and sons or daughters adopted prior to July 1, 
1953, of such alien, shall not be required to have such assurances 
made in their behalf. The assurances shall be submitted to the Admin-
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istrator and it shall be the duty of the Administrator to verify the 
authenticity and bona fides of such assurances and such assurances 
shall be subject to final acceptance and approval by consular and 
immigration officers. 
Blanket assurances, or assurances not sub-
mitted by a responsible individual citizen or citizens, shall not be 
considered as satisfying the requirements of this section. 
The 
assurances for employment and housing shall be indexed and filed 
in such manner so as to show the specific address or addresses 
in the United States in which both the employment and housing are 
available, the type of employment and housing which are available, and 
the conditions and terms of the employment. Each assurance shall be 
a personal obligation of the individual citizen or citizens giving or 
submitting such assurance. 
This subsection shall have no appli-
cability to the alien eligible under paragraph (6), (8) or (10) of 
section 4 (a) of this Act, if such alien provides satisfactory evidence 
that he will not become a public charge. 
(b) Any alien admitted under this Act and subsequently deter-
mined to have been inadmissible under the provisions of this Act at 
the time of entry shall, irrespective of the date of his entry, be taken 
1253^ ^ ^ ^252, ini^Q custody and deported in the manner provided by sections 242 and 
243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 208-214). 
(c) Assistance rendered an alien in connection with his transporta-
tion to and resettlement in the United States shall not be regarded as 
a cause for excludability as an alien likely to become a public charge. 
No alien with respect to whom assurances have been furnished as 
provided in this section shall be deemed to be a pauper under para-
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graph (8) of section 212 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(66 Stat. 182). 
(d) No alien shall be issued a visa under this Act or be admitted 
into the United States unless he shall present to the consular officer 
at the time of making application for a visa or to the immigration 
officer at the time of application for admission (1) a valid unexpired 
passport or other suitable travel document, or document of identity 
or nationality, or other documentary evidence that he w^ill be assured 
of readmission to the country of his nationality, foreign residence or 
in which he obtains a visa under this Act and (2) a certificate of read-
mission guaranteeing his readmission to the country in which he 
obtains a visa under this Act if it is subsequently found that he 
obtained a visa under this Act by fraud or by misrepresenting a 
material fact. 
INTERGOVERNMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS 
SEC. 8. The Secretary of State may, for the purposes of this Act, 
make such arrangements with foreign governments and with the 
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration as are neces-
sary and appropriate for the purpose of financing the overseas trans-
portation of persons who may be issued visas under this Act, such 
arrangements to be mutually beneficial to the economies of the United 
States and the countries concerned, as well as to such persons. 
Such 
arrangements, where appropriate, may seek to enable immigrants 
under this Act to transfer into dollar currency personal assets neces-
sary for defraying the cost of transportation and for use in the United 
States. Arrangements between the United States and the other gov-
ernments concerned and the Intergovernmental Committee for Euro-
pean Migration should also provide for such cooperation and assist-
ance as may be required in the administration of the program author-
ized under this Act in the territory of the intending immigrant's 
residence. 
All transportation by ships or airplanes of aliens under 
this Act to the United States, the cost of which is defrayed in whole 
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or in part by the Government of the United States, shall be by ships 
or airplanes registered under the United States flag, if available. 
SEC. 9. Within the categories established in section 4 of this Act 
the determination of the^ eligibility of persons to receive visas and 
of the admissibility of such persons into the United States under this 
Act shall be made without discrimination in favor of or against a 
race, religion, or the national origin of such persons. 
EXEMPTIONS FROM VISA FEES 
SEC. 10. Persons receiving visas under this Act shall be exempt from 
paying the fees prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 281 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 230-231). 
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SECURITY AND OTHER INVESTIGATION; EFFECT OF MISREPRESENTATION 
SEO. 11. (a) No alien shall be issued a visa under this Act or be 
admitted into the United States unless there shall have first been a 
thorough investigation and written report made and prepared by such 
investigative agency or agencies of the Government of the United 
States as the President shall designate, regarding such person's 
character, reputation, mental and physical health, history and eligi-
bility under this Act, and such investigations in each case shall be 
conducted in a manner and in such time as the investigative agency or 
agencies shall determine to be necessary. 
(b) No person shall be issued a visa or be admitted into the United 
States under this Act if the consular officer or the immigration officer 
knows or has reason to believe that such person is ineligible for a visa 
or is subject to exclusion from the United States under any provision 
of the immigration laws or is not eligible under the terms of this Act. 
(c) No person shall be issued a visa or be admitted into the United 
States under this Act unless the consular officer and the immigration 
officer, after an inspection and examination of such person abroad, 
are entirely satisfied upon the basis of affirmative evidence adduced 
by the applicant that the applicant has established his eligibility for 
a visa and his admissibility into the United States under this Act and 
under the immigration laws and regulations: Provided^ That no per-
son to whom a visa shall be issued shall be exempt from inspection and 
examination at a port of entry. 
(d) No person shall be issued a visa under this Act or be admitted 
into the United States unless complete information shall be available 
regarding the history of such person covering a period of at least two 
years immediately preceding his application for a visa: Provided^ 
That this provision may be waived on the recommendation of the 
Secretaries of State and Defense when determined by them to be in 
the national interest. 
(e) Any person who shall make a material misrepresentation to 
any agency of the Government entrusted directly or indirectly with 
the administration, investigation, enforcement, or any other function 
relating to the implementation of this Act, for the purpose of gaining 
admission into the United States as an alien eligible hereunder, shall 
be excluded from admission into the United States under section 212 
(a) (19) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 183). 
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PRIORITIES 
SEC. 12. Priorities in the consideration of visa applications 
under this Act,- except in the case of applications filed under para-
graph (6), (8) or (10) of section 4 (a), without priority in time of 
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issuance of visas as between such priorities or as between priority 
and nonpriority cases under this Act shall be given to— 
(1) Persons whose services or skills are needed in the United 
States, if such need has been certified to the Administrator, at his 
request, by the United States Employment Service and who are to be 
employed in a capacity calling for such services or such skills; and 
(2) Persons who are (A) the parents of citizens of the United 
States, such citizens being at least twenty-one years of age, or (B) 
spouses or unmarried sons or daughters under twenty-one yeaTs of 
age, including stepsons or stepdaughters and sons or daughters 
adopted prior to July 1, 1953, of aliens lawfully admitted for perma-
nent residence, or (C) brothers, sisters, sons or daughters of citizens 
of the United States. 
SEC, 13. No priority in the consideration of visa applications under 
this Act shall be given to persons who were determined to be eligible 
or preliminarily eligible under the provisions of section (2) (c) of 
50 ^ifsc^°a^pp. Public Law 774, Eightieth Congress, as amended, solely because such 
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persons were determined to be so eligible or preliminarily eligible. 
PERSONS INELIGIBLE; OATH ON ADMISSION; 
PENALTIES 
SEC. 14. (a) No visa shall be issued under this Act to any person 
who personally advocated or assisted in the persecution of any person 
or group of persons because of race, religion, or national origin. 
(b) Before being issued a visa every alien eighteen years of age or 
older, authorized to be admitted under this Act, shall take and sub-
scribe an oath or affirmation that he is not and never has been a person 
specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), or 
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(jj) of section 212 (a) (28) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(66 Stat. 184—186), except as provided in subparagraph (I) of such 
section, and shall be liable to prosecution for perjury if such oath 
or affirmation is willfully false. If any alien not entitled to be issued 
a visa under this Act and not entitled to be admitted into the United 
States shall nevertheless gain admission, such alien shall, regardless 
of the date of his entry, be taken into custody and deported in the 
manner provided in sections 242 and 243 of the Immigration and 
i253y ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^' Nationality Act (66 Stat. 208-214). 
(c) Any person or persons who shall knowingly violate, conspire 
to violate, induce or attempt to induce any person to violate any pro-
vision of this Act shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction 
thereof shall be fined not more than $10,000 or shall be imprisoned 
not more than ten years, or both. 
APPLICABILITY OF IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT 
SEC. 15. Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act all of 
8 use 1101 note, the provisious of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 163) 
shall be applicable under this Act. 
LOANS 
SEC. 16. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to make loans not 
to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate, to public or private agencies of 
the United States for the purpose of financing the transportation 
from ports of entry within the United States to the places of their 
resettlement, of persons receiving immigrant visas under this Act, 
and who lack resources to finance the expenses involved. Such loans, 
which shall mature not later than June 30, 1963, shall be made under 
rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act: Provided^ 
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That such loans shall bear interest at a rate of 3 per centum per annum 
on the unpaid balance from their maturity date until final payment. 
No public or private agency shall be eligible to receive a loan under 
the provisions of this Act while such agency is in default in the pay-
ment of any loan made to it pursuant to the provisions of the Displaced 
Persons Act of 1948, as amended. 
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ELIGIBLE ALIENS TO BE NONQUOTA IMMIGRANTS 
SEC. 17, Any alien granted a visa under this Act shall be deemed 
a nonquota immigrant for the purposes of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (66 Stat. 163). 
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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 18. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
REPORTS 
SEC. 19. The Administrator shall report to the President and the 
Congress on the operation of the program established under this Act 
on or about January 15 and June 15 of each year and shall submit 
a final report not later than June 15,1957. Such reports shall include 
full and complete details regarding the administration of the Act and 
the administration of the funds provided for in section 16 of this Act. 
TERMINATION 
SEC. 20. No immigrant visa shall be issued under this Act after 
December 31, 1956. 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
Public Law 204 
CHAPTER 337 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
For admitting the State of Ohio into the Union. 
August 7,1953 
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2 Stat. 173. 
Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the thirtieth 
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, entitled "An 
Act to enable the people of the Eastern division of the territory 
northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state govern-
ment, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an 
equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes", 
the people of the said territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of 
November, one thousand eight hundred and two, by a convention 
called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and 
state government, which constitution and state government, so 
formed is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the 
articles of compact between the original States and the people and 
States in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the 
thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-
seven : Therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United, 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the State of Ohio, 
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shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of uiSon 
America, and is admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the 
original States, in all respects whatever. 
SEC. 2. This joint resolution shall take effect as of March 1, 1803. 
Effective date 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
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Ohio. 
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