| Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these...subject so far to be altered, that if congress shall henafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1836 - 460 pages
...inhabitants. It was the people of that part of the territory of the United States lying north of the east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan, and none other, who were authorized on the happening of this contingency to form a permanent constitution... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. Senate - Michigan - 1836 - 498 pages
...inhabitants. It was the people of that part of the territory of the United States lying north of the east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan, K ind none othar, who were authorized on the happening of this contingency to form a permanent constitution... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 680 pages
...hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly hend or extreme of Lake Michigan." It appears to me clear, by the mere reading of the latter part of... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so ita t«\». »\iew.d,U«t if congress shall here-after find it expedient, they s\\a\\ lane wo&anvj... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutions - 1836 - 146 pages
...direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line: Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject to be so far altered, that il Congress shall hereafter find it to be expedient, they shall have authority... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 650 pages
...is the territorial line between the United States and Canada: "Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject to be so far altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority... | |
| John Mason Peck - History - 1837 - 396 pages
...organizing the North-Western Territory, in which the boundaries of three States were laid off; " provided, that the boundaries of these three States shall be...through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan." Ohio claims it by possession; and because, by being received into the Union with this portion in possession,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...ordinance, it is declared that the boundaries of the three States constituting the Northwestern Territory, "shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress...authority to form one or two States in that part of said Territory which lies North of an East and West line drawn through, the Southerly bend or extreme... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...formation of a constitution without the previous action if Congress. I will read it: "And it ¡s Initiier understood and declared, that the boundaries of these...Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall haie authority to form one or two States in that p»rt of the 84Íd territory which lies north of »n... | |
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