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THIRTYZFIFTH CONGRESS. Sxcss. II. Ch. 28, 33. 1859. 383 and deemed to be, for all purposes affecting the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any department of the government thereof, the true line of boundary between said Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Approved, February 9, 1859. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act for the Admission of Oregon into the Union. Feb. 14, 1859. Whereas the people of Oregon have framed, ratified, and adopted a constitution of State government which is republican in form, and in conformity with the Constitution of the United States, and have applied Pr°“mb1°‘ for admission into the Union on an equal footing with the other States : Therefore- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Oregon be, and she is Oregon admit. hereby, received into the Union on an equal footing with the other States Wdin all respects whatever, with the following boundaries: In order that the boundaries of the State may be known and established, it is hereby ordained and declared that the State of Oregon shall be bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning one marine league at sea due west from the point Boundaries. where the forty-second parallel of north latitude intersects the same; thence northerly, at the same distance from the line of the coast, lying west and opposite the State, including all islands within the jurisdiction of the United States, to a point due west and opposite the middle of the north ship channel of the Columbia River; thence easterly, to and up the middle channel of said river, and, where it is divided by islands, up the middle of the widest channel thereof; to a point near Fort Walla-Walla, where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude crosses said river; thence east, on said parallel, to the middle of the main channel of the Shoshones or Snake River; thence up the middle of the main channel of said river, to the mouth of the Owyhee River; thence due south, to the parallel of latitude forty-two degrees north; thence west, along said parallel, to the place of beginning, including jurisdiction in civil and criminal eases upon the C0- lumbia River and Snake River, concurrently with States and Territories of which those rivers form a boundary in common with this State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said State of Oregon shall _C§>¤<;¤rr¢¤tj¤· have concurrent jurisdiction on the Columbia and all other rivers and 2;dth° waters bordering on the said State of Oregon so far as the same shall other rivers and form a common boundary to said State, and any other State or States Waters f°’¤**¤g°· now or hereafter to be formed or bounded by the same ; and said rivers g?;"?;? bound` and waters, and all the navigable waters of said State, shall be common Iriavigabye m,- highways and forever free, as well as to the inhabitants of said State as to ers, Sw-, to be all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or ?£',;‘}°“ mg}" toll therefor. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, until the next census and Enmied fg Om apportionment of representatives, the State of Oregon shall be entitled to Y€P¥¤$€¤1miV¢ i¤ one representative in the Congress of the United States. C°ngms‘ Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, Proposition to and the same are hereby, offered to the said people of Oregon for their be submitted to free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted, shallrbe obligatory on the P°P“l”·* V°"°· United States and upon the said State of Oregon, to wit: First, That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sections, or any part thereof, has been sold or otherwise been disposed ot, other lands equivalent thereto, School lands. and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools. Second, That seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State university, to be selected _ State univerby the governor of said State, subject to the approval of the Commissioner my la-“d*’· of the General Land-Oliice, and to be appropriated and applied in such