...act of annexation that Texas shall enjoy all the rights and privileges now secured to that portion of territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, and lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude. Be it further molted, tfc., That...

...form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories." "Whereas the act of Congress of the United States of America, approved March the sixth, one thousand...

...frame of state government, as shall be formed or provided, to be transmitted to congress. 7. SEC. vin. In all that territory ceded by France to the United...States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated...

...form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories," contains certain requisitions and provisions, and, among other things, has . >ti: n ri in tltis convention,...

...received into the union without restriction, and, by the eighth section of the act admitting her, it is provided, "that in all that territory ceded by France...States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated...

...and state government; — by the 8th section of this act, slavery is forever prohibited in all the territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36° 30 ' north latitude, not included in the contemplated state. 1821. March 2d, congress passed a...

...was not then applied. In the act passed for this purpose, there is an express clause, that in all the territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36° 30' N. Lat., not included within the limits of the state of Missouri, slavery and involuntary...

...form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain Territories," the people of said Territory did, on the nineteenth day of J uly, in the year one thousand eight hundred...

...rivers. The very clause of that statute in which the celebrated compromise consists— the provision " that in all that territory ceded by France to the...States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes nortli latitude, not included within the limits of the State...

...constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal fooling with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories," approved the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 668. Michigan was admitted into the...