 | Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1843 - 1080 pages
...advert at this time to some of the authorities upon which my opinions are founded. I observe that " an east and west line drawn through, the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan," is described or adverted to, as a boundary, by the government of the United States in several instances:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 pages
...relating to the public Landt. of an East and West line drawn through the Southernly bend or extreme ACT OF of lake Michigan. And, whenever any of the said States shall have 30thDsc N Í788 60,000 free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...the Ohio, 1.i-niK-ivlvania, and the said territorial line ; provided, however, and it is fur•>_-r t capital, before courts martial, sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the congress... | |
 | 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
...shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of said Territory which lies North of an East and West...through, the Southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." It is affirmed in consequence of this ordinance, that the Southern boundary of Michigan is fixed by... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...find it expedient, they shall have author ty to form one or two States in that part of said terr.tnr)' which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. Michigan contends thai Congress having determined to form two States north of this line, the ordinance... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 732 pages
...and west line dnwn through the southerly 317 320 SBKÁTE.] Admission of ilichigan. [.Un. 5, 183Г. bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand Tree inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegate», into the... | |
 | Caleb Atwater - Natural history - 1838 - 416 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...extreme of lake Michigan: and whenever any of the states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such states shall be admitted by its delegates,... | |
 | United States - Land tenure - 1838 - 654 pages
...or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east °f C°m an^ wes' l'ne drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake...Michigan. And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress... | |
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Provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that... 
