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tieth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Michigan," shall, together with such further quantities as may be agreed upon by Congress, be conveyed to the State, and shall be appropriated solely to the use and support of such university, in such manner as the Legislature may prescribe.

3d. Four entire sections of land, to be selected, under the direction of the Legislature, from any of the unappropriated lands belonging to the United States, shall be granted to the State for its use in establishing a seat of Government.

4th. Seven hundred sections of the unappropriated public lands lying within the State shall be designated, under the direction of the Legislature, and granted the State for the purpose of internal improvement. Said lands, or the proceeds of the sale thereof, shall be appropriated to aid the State in constructing one or more rail-roads or canals across the peninsula, from Lake Erie or Detroit river to Lake Michigan, and also to aid in the construction of such other roads and canals, and in the improvement of such rivers, as the Legislature may designate. And five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the sale of all lands lying within the Territory or State, which shall be sold by Congress from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be appropriated, two-fifths thereof for the purposes before described in this proposition, and three-fifths for the encouragement of learning.

5th. All salt springs within the State, and the lands reserved for the use of the same, at least one section including each spring, shall be granted to the State, to be used or disposed of as the Legislature may direct.

6th. The roads commenced in this State, for the construction of which appropriations have been made by Congress, shall be completed and put in repair at the expense of the United States.

7th. The first Senators and Representative or Representatives elected to Congress from this State are hereby authorized and empowered to make or assent to such other propositions, or to such variations of the propositions herein made, as the interests of the State may require; and any such changes or new propositions, when approved by the Legislature, shall be as obligatory as if the assent of this convention were given thereto; and all stipulations entered into by the Legislature in pursuance of the authority herein conferred, shall be considered articles of compact between the United States and this State; and the Legislature is hereby further authorized to declare, in behalf of the people of Michigan, if such declaration be proposed by Congress, that they will never interfere with the primary disposal, under the authority of the United States, of the vacant lands within the limits of this State.

CHARLES W. WHIPPLE,
MARSHAL J. BACON,

Secretaries.

JOHN BIDDLE, President.

I, John Biddle, president of the convention to form a constitution, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the constitution adopted by the said convention.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of November, A. D. 1835.

JOHN BIDDLE, President of the Convention.

B No. 1.

Extract from the Charter of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, 7th October, 1691.

WILLIAM and MARY, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defenders of the faith, &c. to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

We do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will and ordain, that the territories and colonies commonly called or known by the names of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and Colony of New Plymouth, the province of Maine, the territory called Acadia or Nova Scotia and the said province of Maine, be erected, united and incorporated; and we do, by these presents, unite, erect and incorporate the same into one real province, by the name of our province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England; and for especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give, grant and bequeath unto our good subjects, the inhabitants of our said province or territory of the Massachusetts Bay, and their successors, all that part of New England in America, lying and extending from the great river, commonly called Monomack, alias Merrimack, on the north part, and from three miles northward of the said river, to the Atlantic, or Western Sea or Ocean, on the south part, and all the lands and hereditaments whatsoever, lying within the limits aforesaid, and extending as far as the outermost points or promontories of land called Cape Cod, and Cape Malabar, north and south, and in latitude, breadth, and in length, and longitude, of and within all the breadth and compass aforesaid, throughout the main land there, from the said Atlantic or Western Sea and Ocean on the east part, towards the South Sea or westward, as far as our colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Naragansett country; and also, all that part and portion of main land, beginning at the entrance of Piscataqua harbor, and so pass up the same into the river Newuhwannock, and through the same into the furthest head thereof, and from thence, northwestward, till one hundred and twenty miles be finished; and from Piscataqua harbor mouth aforesaid, northwestward, along the sea coast, to Sagadehock, and up the river thereof, to Kennybecky river, and through the same, to the head thereof, and unto the land northwestward until one hundred and twenty miles be ended, being accounted from the mouth of Sagadehock, and from the period of one hundred and twenty miles aforesaid, to cross over land to the one hundred and twenty miles before reckoned up, into the land from Piscataqua harbor, through Newuhwannock river; and also, the north half of the Isles of Shals, together with the Isles of Capawock and Nantuckett, near Cape Cod aforesaid; and also, the lands and hereditaments lying and extending between the said country or territory of Nova Scotia and the said river of Sagadehock, or any part thereof.

[The old patents granted by the Council of Plymouth, for Massachusetts and Plymouth, are dated 1627 and 1629, respectively. The first Massachusetts charter granted on 4th March, 1628-9, to the patentees, (Sir Henry Rosewell and others) by King Charles I, was vacated by quo warranto, in 1684. The grant for Maine to Sir Georges, dated April 3, 1639, had been purchased by Massachusetts in 1674. The charter of 1691, unites those several grants, and adds to them Acadia or Nova Scotia, and country lying between it and the Kennebec river, the eastern boundary of Maine.]

B No. 2.

Extract from the grant of Charles the Second to James Duke of York. 12th March, 1663-4.

Know ye that we, for divers good causes, &c. have, &c. &c. and by these presents, &c. do give and grant unto our dearest brother, James Duke of York, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the main land of New England, beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix, next adjoining to New Scotland in America; and from thence extending along the sea coast unto a certain place called Pamaquie or Pamaquid, and so up the river thereof to the farthest head of the same as it tendeth northward; and extending from thence to the river of Kinbequin, and so upwards, by the shortest course, to the river Canada northward. And also that island or islands commonly called by the several name or names of Motowacks or Long Island, situate, lying, and being towards the west of Cape Cod and the Narrow Higansets, abutting upon the main land between the two rivers, there called and known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river; together, also, with the said river called Hudson's river; and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river to the east side of Delaware Bay. And also all those several islands called or known by the name of Martha's Vineyard and Nantuckes, or otherwise Nantucket. [The preceding grant merged in the Crown by the accession of the Duke of York (James the second) to the throne. The territory between Pemaquid and St. Croix was, by the charter of 1692, annexed to Massachusetts. A part of the territory between Hudson and Delaware rivers, had been transferred by the Duke of York, and formed New Jersey. The residue of the grant constituted the regal government of New York, to which the jurisdiction over the territory of the "Six Nations" seems to have been annexed.]

B No. 3.

Extract from the Second Charter of Virginia.

Sec. 6. And we do also of our special grace, &c. give &c. unto the said treasurer and company, &c. all those lands, countries, and territories, situate, lying, and being in that part of America called Virginia, from the point of land called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward 200 miles; and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid up into the land throughout from sea to sea west and northwest; and also all the islands lying within one hundred miles along the coast of both seas of the precinct aforesaid.

[The first charter, dated 10th of April, 1606, extended along the sea coast from the 34th to the 41st degree of north latitude, but only fifty miles inland. Third charter, dated March 12, 1612, annexed to Virginia all the islands within three hundred leagues of the coast. These three charters were vacated by quo warranto before the 15th of July, 1624, on which day a commission issued for the government of Virginia, without making, however, any alteration in boundaries--established by the second charter. The colony was afterwards curtailed on the north by the grant to Lord

Baltimore and to William Penn, and on the south by that to the proprietors of Carolina. The charters of Maryland and Pennsylvania are not inserted, as these States made no cession to the United States: New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, being the only States that had, or laid any claim to the territory north of the river Ohio and west of Pennsylvania, the cession of those States has given to the United States an indisputable title to the public lands within that territory as far west as the river Mississippi, which, by the treaty of 1763, was established as the boundary between British America and Louisiana. Note by the Editor of the Land Laws.]

B No. 4.

Extract from the Charter of Connecticut. 23d April, 1662.

And know ye further that we, of our abundant grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have given, granted, and confirmed, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors, do grant, and confirm, unto the said governor and company, and their successors, all that part of our dominions in New England in America, bounded on the east by Naragansett River. commonly called Naragansett Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of Massachusetts colony running from east to west, that is to say, from the said Naragansett Bay on the east, to the South Sea on the west part, with the islands thereunto adjoining, &c. &c.

[The first Connecticut patent to Lord Say and Seal was dated 19th March, 1631. Whether the title of the patentees had become vested in the colony of Connecticut before the year 1662, is now immaterial, so far as relates to the United States. By an agreement originally made in 1683, but not finally ratified till 1731 or 1733, the boundary between Connecticut and New York was established. But Connecticut continued to claim the land west of New York and within the limits of their charter. [See the first proviso to the act of Congress of the 28th April, 1800, by which a legislative act renouncing all claim west of that line, is required from Connecticut.]

C No. 1.

Resolution of Congress of 30th October, 1779.

WHEREAS, The appropriation of vacant lands by the several States during the continuance of the war, will, in the opinion of Congress, be attended with great mischief: therefore,

Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the State of Virginia, to reconsider their late act of Assembly for opening their land office; and that it be recommended to the said State, and all other States similarly circumstanced, to forbear setting or issuing warrants for unappropriated lands, or granting the same during the continuance of the present war. (3d vol. Journal, page 385.)

C No. 2.

Extract from 3d vol. Journal of Congress, page 516.

Congress took into consideration the report of the committee to whom were referred the instructions of the General Assembly of Maryland to their delegates in Congress respecting the articles of confederation, and the declaration therein referred to, the act of the Legislature of New York on the same subject, and the remonstrance of the General Assembly of Virginia; which report was agreed to, Whereupon,

Resolved, That copies of the several papers referred to the committee, be transmitted, with a copy of the report, to the Legislatures of the several States, and that it be earnestly recommended to those States, who have claims to the western country, to pass such laws, and give their delegates in Congress such powers, as may effectually remove the only obstacle to a final ratification of the articles of confederation; and that the Legislature of Maryland be earnestly requested to authorize their delegates in Congress to subscribe the said articles. (Passed September 6, 1780.)

C No. 3.

Extract from 3d vol. Journal of Congress, page 535.

Resolved, That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress, of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States; that each State which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit: that the necessary and reasonable expenses which any particular State shall have incurred since the commencement of the present war, in subduing any British posts, or in maintaining forts or garrisons within, and for the defence, or in acquiring any part of the territory that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, shall be reimbursed. (Passed October 10, 1780.)

C No. 4.

Extract from the Journal of Congress for 1782, 83: 8th vol. page 258.

The committee, consisting of Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Bedford, Mr. Gorham, and Mr. Madison, to whom were referred the act of the Legislature of Virginia, of the 2d of January, 1781, and the report thereon:

Report, that they have considered the several matters referred to them, and observe, that the Legislature of Virginia, by their act of the 2d of

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