Chapter LIII. *for the Admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union.* March 3, 1847. 1848, ch. 50
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Chap. LIII.— An Act *for the Admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union.* March 3, 1847. 1848, ch. 50. Preamble.Whereas the people of the Territory of Wisconsin did, on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-six, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State government, which said constitution is republican; and said convention having asked the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the original States— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the State of Wisconsin admitted into the Union.Wisconsin be, and the same is hereby, declared to be, one of the Uni-TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 54. 1847.179ted States of America, and is hereby admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the change of boundary proposed in the first article Change of boundary, &c. 1846, ch. 89.of said constitution, to wit: leaving the boundary line prescribed in the act of Congress entitled “An Act to enable the People of Wisconsin Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the Union,” at the first rapids in the River St.
Louis, thence in a direct line southwardly to a point fifteen miles east of the most easterly point in Lake St. Croix, thence due south to the main channel of the Mississippi River or Lake Pepin, thence down the said main channel, as prescribed in said act. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the assent of Congress is Assent of Congress to resolutions of convention relative to grants of lands, and the 5 per ct. fund.hereby given to the resolutions adopted by said convention and appended to said constitution, and the acts of Congress referred to in said resolutions are hereby amended so that the lands thereby granted and the proceeds thereof, and the five per centum of the net proceeds of the public lands, may be held and disposed of by said State, in the manner and for the purposes recommended by said convention: *Provided, however,* Proviso.That the liabilities incurred by the territorial government of Wisconsin, under the act entitled “An Act to grant a Quantity 1838, ch. 114.of Land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the Purpose of aiding in opening a Canal to connect the Waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock River,” shall be paid and discharged by said State: *And provided, further,* That the even-numbered sections along the route Price of public lands.of said proposed canal shall be brought into market, and sold at the same minimum price, and subject to the same rights of preemption to all the settlers thereon, at the passage of this act, as other public lands of the United States.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That it is made and declared to Assent to a certain constitution required us a condition of admission.be a fundamental condition of the admission of said State of Wisconsin into the Union, that the constitution adopted at Madison, on the sixteenth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, shall be assented to by the qualified electors, in the manner and at the times prescribed in the ninth section of the twentieth article of said constitution.
And as soon as such assent shall be given, the President of the United States shall announce the same by proclamation; and therefrom, and without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of said State of Wisconsin into the Union, on an equal footing in all respects whatever with the original States, shall be considered as complete. Approved, March 3, 1847.