United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 6

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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Jan. 26, 1837.

Chap. VI.An Act to admit the State of Michigan into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States.

Act of June 15, 1836, ch. 99.
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 121.
Post, pp. 288, 414, 648.
Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress of June the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed,” a convention of delegates, elected by the people of the said State of Michigan, for the sole purpose of giving their assent to the boundaries of the said State of Michigan as described, declared, and established, in and by the said act, did, on the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, assent to the provisions of said act, therefore:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Michigan shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted intoAdmitted into the Union. the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever.

Entitled to a deposit of the surplus revenue.
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 115.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in carrying into effect the thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the act of the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” shall consider the State of Michigan as being one of the United States.

Approved, January 18, 1837.