Chapter XXXI. for the Admission of the State of Minnesota into the Union
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Chap. XXXI.— An Act for the Admission of the State of Minnesota into the Union.May 11, 1858. Whereas an act of Congress was passed February twenty-six, eighteenPreamble.1857, ch. 60.*Ante*, p. 166. hundred and fifty-seven, entitled “An act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and state government preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States;“ and whereas the people of said Territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by delegates elected for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which is republican in form, and was ratified and adopted by the people, at an election held on the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for that purpose: therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the State of MinnesotaMinnesota admitted. shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That said State shall be entitled toShall have two representatives. two representatives in Congress until the next apportionment of representative amongst the several States. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the admissionLaws of the United States extended over it. of the State of Minnesota, as hereinbefore provided, all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within that State as in other States of the Union; and the said State is hereby constituted a judicial district of the UnitedMade a judicial district.*Post*, p. 402.
States, within which a district court, with the like powers and jurisdiction as the district court of the United States forPay of judge, &c. the district of Iowa, shall be established; the judge, attorney, and marshal of the United States for the said district of Minnesota shall reside within the same, and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge, attorney, and marshal of the district of Iowa; and in all cases of appeal or writ of error heretoforeProvision for appeals now pending. prosecuted and now pending in the supreme court of the United States, upon any record from the supreme court of Minnesota Territory, the mandate of execution or order of further proceedings shall be directed by the supreme court of the United States to the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, or to the supreme court of the State of Minnesota, as the nature of such appeal or writ of error may require; and each of those courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Minnesota Territory, as to all such cases, with full power to hear and determine the same, and to award mesne or final process therein.
Approved, May 11, 1858.