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act entitled act to amend act to authorize act to incorporate amend an act Arnott ayes and nays Ayes-Messrs Bain Barnard Burbank Campbell of Otoe Cass county chairman Collier of Burt Committee on Corporations Committee on Judiciary county seat Dodge county entitled An act following report Gage county Goshen Hanscom of Douglas Hinsdale honorable body introduced H. F. Johnson of Douglas Joint resolution Keeling keep a ferry Lake of Douglas Latta McCasland Missouri river motion moved to adjourn moved to amend Myers nays were demanded Nays-Messrs Nebraska city Nebraska Territory Nemaha county Noel of Nemaha Nuckolls of Otoe Nuckolls of Richardson Omaha Otoe county Passed and title Platte county read a second read a third Read the third recommend its passage referred H. F. respectfully Richardson county rules were suspended Sarpy county Speaker Stephenson submitted the following territorial road Territory of Nebraska title agreed title read vols vote
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Página 21 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 18 - It is acquired to become a State, and not to be held as a colony and governed by Congress with absolute authority; and as the propriety of admitting a new State is committed to the sound discretion of Congress, the power to acquire territory for that purpose, to be held by the United States until it is in a suitable condition to become a State upon an equal footing with the other States, must rest upon the same discretion.
Página 24 - goodly frame," without a parallel, this Union, was first conceived, they trusted in Jehovah and were not disappointed. They knew as we know that there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow, and in the rise and fall of nations.
Página 11 - One most important fact, in a political point of view," says Greenhow, "was completely established by the observations of the party; namely, that the whole division of North America drained by the Missouri and the Arkansas, and their tributaries between the meridian of the mouth of the Platte and the Rocky Mountains, is almost entirely unfit for cultivation, and therefore uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.
Página 218 - DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Council of The City of Elmira at a regular meeting held March 27, 1967.
Página 19 - ... adopted, whether we consider its bearing on the people of the Territories or upon the people of the existing States. Many of the serious dissensions which have prevailed in Congress and throughout the country would have been avoided had this rule been established at an earlier period of the government. Immediately upon the formation of a new Territory, people from different States and from foreign countries rush into it, for the laudable purpose of improving their condition. Their first duty...
Página 18 - The power to expand the territory of the United States by the admission of new States is plainly given; and in the construction of this power by all the departments of the Government it has been held to authorize the acquisition of territory, not fit for admission at the time, but to be admitted as soon as its population and situation would entitle it to admission.
Página 9 - Resolved that a committee of two be appointed to wait upon the Governor and inform him that...
Página 19 - France, it contained no population fit to be associated together and admitted as a State; and it therefore was absolutely necessary to hold possession of it, as a territory belonging to the United States, until it was settled and inhabited by a civilized community capable of self-government, and in a condition to be admitted on equal terms with the other States as a member of the Union.
Página 14 - It is a matter of bitter experience that the people of this Territory have been made to pass through the delusive days of high times and paper prices, and the consequent dark and gloomy night of low times and no prices.