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452 THIRTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50. 1850. Proviso. accordingly: Provided, That such delegate shall receive no higher sum for mileage than is allowed by law to the delegate from Oregon. Lands to be Sno, 15. And be it further enacted, That when the lands in said gglgrgxgigseggp Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of ` the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Ter- Reservation for ritory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of $°h°°1S· being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same. _Judicia1 dis- Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That temporarily and until gigff h°" d°‘ otherwise provided by law, the governor of said Territory may detine ` the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for said Territory to the several districts, and also appoint the times and places for holding courts in the several counties or subdivisions in each of said judicial districts, by proclamation to be issued by him; but the legislative assembly, at their first or any sub-

equent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts,

and assign the judges, and alter the times and places of holding the courts, as to them shall seem proper and convenient The Constitu- Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That the Constitution, and all §l‘;“1;’:;agQ1‘:;é laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have U_ g_ extended the same force and effect within the said Territory of New Mexico as Over NW Mm- elsewhere within the United States. °°i,mviSi0m of Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act this amobesus- be, and they are hereby, suspended until the boundary between the Eggggggnglalaf United States and the State of Texas shall be adjusted; and when mst8d_ such adjustment shall have been effected, the President of the United Pr<>¤>l¤¤¤¤*i¤¤· States shall issue his proclamation, declaring this act to be in full force See Appendix, and operation, and shall proceed to appoint the officers herein provided P· 1005- to be appointed in and for said Territory. Citizeiisuights Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That no citizen of the United P'°*°°*°d· States shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, in said Territory, except by the judgment of his peers and the laws of the land. Apmovnn, September 9, 1850. Sept. 9, 1850. CHA?. L.*"•H7I Act for the Admission of the State af California. into the Union. Preamble. Whereas the people of California have presented a constitution and asked admission into the Union, which constitution was submitted to Congress by the President of the United States, by message dated February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and which, on duo examination, is found to be republican in its form of government: lflagfprnéa de- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the gf"°;h6° Uilggg United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of States. California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever _ Entitled to two Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, until the representatives in

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asieais made, the inhabitants of the United States, the State of California shall be entitled to two representatives in Congress. Admittedinto Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said State of California

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conditions. of said State, through their legislature oi- otherwise, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands within its limits, and shall pass no law and do no act whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose ot] the same shall be impaired or questioned;