Journal of the Constitutional convention of the district of Maine;
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781425507480
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: Whereas, It has been represented to this Legislature, that a majority of the people of the District of Maine are desirous of establishing a separate and independent Government within said District; Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the consent of this Commonwealth be, and the same is hereby given, that the District of Maine may be formed and erected into a separate and independent State, if the people of the said District shall, in the manner, and by the majority, hereinafter mentioned, express their consent and agreement thereto, upon the following terms and conditions; and, provided, the Congress of the United States shall give its consent thereto, before the fourth day of March next; which terms and conditions are as follows, viz: First. All the lands and buildings belonging to the Commonwealth, within Massachusetts proper, shall continue to belong to said Commonwealth; and all the lands belonging to the Commonwealth, within the District of Maine, shall belong, the one-half thereof, to the said Commonwealth, and the other half thereof, to the State to be formed within the said District, to be divided as is hereinafter mentioned; and the lands within the said District which shall belong to the said Commonwealth, shall be free from taxation, while the title to the said lands remains in the Commonwealth; and the rights of the Commonwealth to their lands, within said District, and the remedies for the recovery thereof, shall continue the same within the proposed State, and in the courts thereof, as they now are within the said Commonwealth, and in the courts thereof; for which purposes, and for the maintenance of its rights, and recovery of its lands, the said Commonwealth shall be entitled to all other proper and legal remedies, and may appear in the courts of the proposed State, and in the courts of the United States, holden therein, and prosecute as a party, under the name and style of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts;