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ADMISSION OF IOWA AND FLORIDA INTO THE UNION.

City the first day of November, anno Domini the next census and apportionment shall be eighteen hundred and forty-four, or by the leg-made, each of said States of Iowa and Florida

islature of said State. And so soon as such assent shall be given, the President of the United States shall announce the same by proclamation; and therefrom without further proceedings on the part of congress the admission of the said State of Iowa into the Union, on an equal footing in all respects whatever with the original States, shall be considered as complete.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That said State of Florida shall embrace the territories of East and West Florida, which by the treaty of amity, settlement and limits between the United States and Spain, on the twentysecond day of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, were ceded to the United States.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That until

shall be entitled to one representative in the house of representatives of the United States.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That said States of Iowa and Florida are admitted into the Union on the express condition that they shall never interfere with the primary disposition of the public lands lying within them, nor levy any tax on the same whilst remaining the property of the United States: Provided, That the ordinance of the convention that formed the constitution of Iowa, and which is appended to the said constitution, shall not be deemed or taken to have any effect or validity, or to be recognized as in any manner obligatory upon the government of the United States. APPROVED, MARCH 3, 1845.

AN ACT supplemental to the act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the

Union.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of rep-district court the annual compensation of fifteen resentatives of the United States of America in hundred dollars, to commence from the date of congress assembled, That the laws of the United his appointment, to be paid quarterly at the States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall treasury of the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States; who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid annually by the United States two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services; the said payment to be made quarterly, at the treasury of the United States.

have the same force and effect within the State of Iowa as elsewhere within the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said State shall be one district, and be called the district of Iowa; and a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said State, two sessions of the said district court annually, on the first Monday Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a in January, and he shall, in all things, have and marshal shall be appointed for the said district, exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which who shall perform the same duties, be subject to were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky the same regulations and penalties, and be endistrict, under an act entitled "An act to es-titled to the same fees, as are prescribed and altablish the judicial courts of the United States." lowed to marshals in other districts; and shall, He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred who shall reside and keep the records of the dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra said court at the place of holding the same; and services. shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is by law entitled for similar services.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the propositions submitted to the congress of the United States, by an ordinance passed on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-four, by the convention of delegates at

ADMISSION OF IOWA AND FLORIDA INTO THE UNION.

Iowa City, assembled for the purpose of making a constitution for the State of Iowa, which are hereby rejected, the following propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to the legislature of the State of Iowa, for 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 township of the public lands, and, where such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to the State

for the use of schools.

SECOND-That the seventy-two sections of land set apart and reserved for the use and support of a university, by an act of congress approved on the twentieth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty, entitled "An act granting two townships of land for the use of a university in the territory of Iowa," are hereby granted and conveyed to the State, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of such university, in such manner as the legislature may prescribe.

THIRD-That five entire sections of land to be selected and located under the direction of the legislature, in legal divisions of not less than one quarter section, from any of the unappropriated lands belonging to the United States within the said State, are hereby granted to the State for the purpose of completing the public buildings of the said State, or for the erection of public buildings at the seat of government of the said State, as the legislature may determine and di

rect.

FOURTH-That all salt springs within the State, not exceeding twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining, or as contiguous as may be to each, shall be granted to the said State for its use; the same to be selected by the legislature thereof, within one year after the ad

mission of said said State, and the same, when so selected, to be used on such terms, conditions, and regulations, as the legislature of the State shall direct: Provided, That no salt spring, the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which may hereafter be confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, shall, by this section, be granted to said State: And provided, also, That the general assembly shall never lease or sell the same, at any one time, for a longer period than ten years, without the consent of congress.

FIFTH-That five per cent. of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within the said State, which have been or shall be sold by congress, from and after the admission of said State, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be appropriated for making public roads and canals within the said State, as the legislature may direct: Provided, That the five foregoing propositions herein offered are on the condition that the legislature of the said State, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by the convention which framed the constitution of the said State, shall provide by an ordinance ̧ irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, nor with any regulations congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers thereof; and that no tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents; and that the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military services during the late war, shall, while they continue to be held by the patentees or their heirs, remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under the authority of the State, whether for State, county, township, or any other purpose, for the term of three years from and after the date of the patents respectively. APPROVED, MARCH 3, 1845.

ACCEPTING PROPOSITIONS OF CONGRESS.

AN ACT AND ORDINANCE accepting the propositions made by Congress on the admission of Iowa into the Union as a State.

Section 1. Be it enacted and ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the propositions to the State of Iowa on her admission into the Union, made by the act of congress, entitled "An act supplemental to the act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union," approved March 3, 1845, and which are contained in the sixth section of that act, are hereby accepted in lieu of the propositions submitted to congress by an ordinance, passed on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-four, by the convention of delegates which assembled at Iowa City on the first Monday of October, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of forming a constitution for said State, and which were rejected by congress: Provided, The general assembly shall have the right, in accordance with the provisions of the second section of the tenth article of the constitution of Iowa, to appropriate the five per cent. of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within the State which have been or shall be sold by congress from and after the admission of said State, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, to the support of common schools.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted and ordained, as conditions of the grants specified in the propositions first mentioned in the foregoing section, irrevocable and unalterable without the

consent of the United States, that the State of Iowa will never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, nor with any regulations congress may gnd necessary for securing the title in such soil io the bona fide purchasers thereof; and that no tax shall be imposed on lands, the property of the United States; and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents; and that the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military service during the late war with Great Britain, shall, while they continue to be held by the patentees or their heirs, remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under the authority of the State, whether for State, county, township, or other purposes, for the term of three years from and after the dates of the patents respectively.

Sec. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state, after the taking effect of this act, to forward one copy of the same to each of our senators and representatives in congress, who are hereby required to procure the consent of congress, to the diversion of the five per cent. fund indicated in the proviso to the first section

of this act.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the weekly newspapers printed in Iowa City.

APPROVED, JANUARY 15, 1849.

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