State election is held on the second Thursday in August. The enacting clause of the laws is as follows: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same." NEVADA. Nevada was admitted as a State, March 21st, 1864, making the thirty-sixth State in the Union. acres. It has an area of 63,473 square miles, or 40,622,720 The population in 1860, while yet a Territory, was 6,857, but had greatly increased at the time of admission. In conformity with the Constitutional provision that every State shall have one Representative in Congress, Nevada has one. ninth judicial circuit, and forms called the district of Nevada. This State lies in the one judicial district, The State election is Virginia City is the capital. held on the first Tuesday in November; and the Legislature meets on the first Monday in January. The enacting clause of the laws is in the following words: "The people of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows." UNITED STATES SENATORS. James W. Nye, from 1865 to 1871. 1865" 1869. 12 IMPERIUM IMPERIO IN OHIO. Ohio was admitted into the Union from what was then known as the Northwestern Territory, in 1802, and made the seventeenth State. It has an area of 39,964 square miles, equal to 25,576,960 acres. The population in 1860 was 2,339,511, entitling it to nineteen Members of Congress. It is in the sixth judicial circuit, and forms two judicial districts, viz.: the Northern and Southern districts. of Ohio. This State has three ports of entry, to wit: Cleveland, Toledo, and Portland; and four ports of delivery, to be located where the President directs. The capital of this State is Columbus. The State election is now held on the second Tuesday of October. The Legislature meets on the first Monday of January, biennially. The enacting clause of the laws is as follows: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio." Oregon was admitted into the Union as a State on the 14th day of February, 1859, and made the thirtythird State. It has an area of 95,274 square miles, equal to 60,975,360 acres. The population amounted in 1860 to 52,465, which did not reach the number required to entitle it to a Member of Congress according to the fixed ratio. But every State is entitled to one member, whatever its population may be. By act of 1866, the States of Oregon, Nevada and California were constituted the ninth judicial circuit. Oregon forms one judicial district, and has one collection district, and one port of entry. The capital is Salem, where her Legislature meets once in two years, on the second Tuesday of September. The State election is held on the 1st Monday in June. |