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TWENTY-FOURTH GONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100. 1836.
1816, ch. 57.
The boundaryto receive theassent of a con-vention.
Statute I.June 15,1836.
Act of June23, 1836, ch.120 .
ship channel of the said bay to the middle of Lake Michigan ; thence,through the middle of Lake Michigan , to the northern boundary of theState of Indiana, as that line was established by the act of Congress ofthe nineteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen ; thence, dueeast, with the north boundary line of the said State of Indiana , to thenortheast corner thereof; and thence, south, with the east boundary lineof Indiana , to the place of beginning.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, as a compliance with thefundamental condition of admission contained in the last preceding sec-tion of this act, the boundaries of the said State of Michigan , as in thatsection described, declared, and established, shall receive the assent ofa convention of delegates elected by the people of the said State, for thesole purpose of giving the assent herein required; and as soon as theassent herein required shall be given, the President of the United States shall announce the same by proclamation; and thereupon, and withoutany further proceeding on the part of Congress , the admission of thesaid State into the Union, as one of the United States of America , onan equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, shallbe considered as complete, and the Senators and Representatives whohave been elected by the said State as its representative in the Congressof the United States, shall be entitled to take their seats in the Senate and House of Representatives respectively, without further delay.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained,or in the admission of the said State into the Union as one of the UnitedStates of America upon an equal footing with the original States in allrespects whatever, shall be so construed or understood as to confer uponthe people, Legislature, or other authorities of the said State of Michi-gan, any authority or right to interfere with the sale by the United States ,and under their authority, of the vacant and unsold lands within thelimits of the said State, but that the subject of the public lands, and theinterests which may be given to the said State therein, shall be regu-lated by future action between Congress, on the part of the UnitedStates , and the said State, or the authorities thereof. And the saidState of Michigan shall in no case and under no pretence whatsoever,impose any tax, assessment or imposition of any description upon anyof the lands of the United States within its limits.
Approved, June 15, 1836.
Chap. C. —Jin Act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, andto provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States , within the same,and for other purposes.
Whereas, the people of the Territory of Arkansas , did, on the thirtiethday of January in the present year by a convention of delegates, calledand assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution andState Government, which constitution and State Government , so formed,is republican: and whereas, the number of inhabitants within the saidTerritory exceeds forty-seven thousand seven hundred persons, computedaccording to the rule precribed by the constitution of the United States ;and the said convention have, in their behalf, asked the Congress of theUnited States to admit the said Territory into the Union as a State, onan equal footing with the original States:
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the State ofArkansas shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one of the UnitedStates of America , and admitted into the Union on an equal footingwith the original States, in all respects whatever, and the said Stateshall consist of all the territory included within the following bounda-ries, to wit: beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mis-