...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." Second, The proceeds of the estates of all deceased persons, to which the State has become entitled...

...the temporary government thereof." The territory of Orleans embraced all " that portion of country ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies south of the Mississippi territory, and of an east and west line to commence on the Mississippi river...

...amendment to the Missouri branch of the bill, in the following words : — "And be it further enacted, .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 north latitude, [excepting only such part thereof as is] not...

...guarantee to every State a republican form of government. The citizens of each State have the right * "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 north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated...

...geographical majority ingrafted on the Missouri bill a provision — " that in all that territory teded 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...

...first section of the act of the 26th of March, 1804 (1 Land Laws, 112), " all that portion of country ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana which liea south of the Mississippi Territory, and of an east and west line to commence on the Mississippi...

...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, was passed March 6, 1820. The people having, on July 19, 1S20, formed a constitution in pursuance of...

...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, was passed March 6, 1820. The people having, on July 19, 1820, formed a constitution in pursuance of...

...the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government," &c., provides : "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 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...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...