...precedent to an admission into the Union on an equal footing with the other States of the confederacy, to provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, " That they VOL. XI.— 86 for ever disclaim all right or title to Ihp waste or unappropriated lands lying...

...their acceptance or rejection, which if accepted, under the authority conferred on the said legislature by the convention which framed the constitution of the said state, shall be obligatory upon the United States. First, That section numbered sixteen in every School land«....

...acceptance or rejection." A proviso to that section is in the following words : ': that the said convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without " the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting the said territory, do agree and declare, that they forever disclaim all right and...

...condition that the legislature ot the said state, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by ihe convention which framed the constitution of the said state, shall provide by an ordinance irrevocable witfiout the consent of the United States, that tha said state shall never interfere with the primary...

...their acceptance or rejection, which if accepted, under the authority conferred on the said legislature which the be obligatory upon the United States. First. That section numbered sixteen in every township of the...

...their acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted under the authority conferred on the said Legislature by the convention which framed the constitution of the said State, shall be obligatory upon the United States: s«tion of land for First. That section numbered sixteen in every...

...Provided, That the five foregoing propositions herein oflered, are on the condition that the convention of the said state shall provide, by an ordinance,...irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of January next,...

...of the United States are now published and conducted : And provtáed also, That the said convention shall provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, r"erv«abí£&.c. that the people inhabiting the said territory do agree and dethai the peo-...

...shall pass. These propositions were on the condition, that the convention of the said State should provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that every and each tract of land sold by Congress, from and after the 30th day of June then next to ensue,...

...various restrictions, and among others the following one : "And provided always, that the said convention shall provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting said territory do agree and declare that they for ever disclaim all right and title...