the President is hereby declared to have the same powers of revocation and removal. removal, etc., execute the ernor during the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, In case of death, removal, resignation or necessary absence of the Governor of the Secretary to the said Territory, the Secretary thereof shall be, and he is powers of Govhereby authorized and required to execute all the powers, and vacancy. perform all the duties of the Governor, during the vacancy occasioned by the removal, resignation, or necessary absence of the said Governor. AN ACT RESPECTING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES, NORTH- IN CONGRESS, MAY 8, 1792. 1 Story's Laws U. S., p. 266, cn. 42. Laws of the Ter ritory north-west to be printed, etc. sets of the Lawa SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the laws of the Territory north-west of the Ohio, that have been, or hereafter may be, enacted by the Governor and Judges thereof, shall be printed, of the River Ohio under the direction of the Secretary of State, and two hundred 200 copies and 10 copies thereof, together with ten sets of the laws of the United of the United States, shall be delivered to the said Governor and Judges, to livered, etc. be distributed among the inhabitants for their information, and that a like number of the laws of the United States shall be delivered to the Governor and Judges of the Territory south-west of the River Ohio. States to be de Judges of the Ter of the Ohio au SEC. 2. That the Governor and Judges of the Territory Governor and north-west of the River Ohio, shall be, and hereby are, au- ritory north-west thorized to repeal their laws, by them made, whensoever the thorized to repeal same may be found to be improper. their laws, etc. Secretaries, under the control of Territorial laws. SEC. 3. That the official duties of the Secretaries of the said Oficial duties of Territories shall be under the control of such laws as are, or may be in force in the said Territories. of One Supreme or SEC. 4. That any one of the Supreme or Superior Judges the said Territories, in the absence of the other judges, shall be, and hereby is authorized to hold a court. Superior Judge may hold court in the absence of the others. The Secretary of SEC. 5. That the Secretary of State provide proper seals for the several and respective public offices in the said Territories. sents for the Ter State to provide ritorial offices. The limitation act passed by the Judges disap SEC. 6. That the limitation act, passed by the Governor and Governor and Judges of the said Territory, the twenty-eighth day of Decemproved. ber, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, be, and hereby is disapproved. [The seventh section of the above act contains only a special provision.] GOVERNMENT OF MICHIGAN TERRITORY. AN ACT TO DIVIDE THE INDIANA TERRITORY INTO TWO SEPARATE GOVERNMENTS. IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 11, 1805. S., p. 957, ch. 66. ana herein de tute a separate called Michigan. be established SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the thir-2 Story's Laws U. tieth day of June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory That part of Indiwhich lies North of a line drawn East from the southerly bend scribed to constior extreme of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake territory, and be Erie, and East of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said Lake to its northern extremity, and thence due North to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary Government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan. SEC. 2. That there shall be established within the said Ter- A government to ritory a Government in all respects similar to that provided similar to that by the ordinance of Congress, passed on the thirteenth day of ordinance and July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the etc. Act of 1789, Government of the Territory of the United States north-west of the River Ohio, and by an act passed on the seventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to provide for the Government of the Territory northwest of the River Ohio;" and the inhabitants thereof The inhabitants shall be entitled to, and enjoy, all and singular the rights, rights secured by privileges and advantages, granted and secured to the people of the Territory of the United States north-west of the River Ohio, by the said ordinance. provided by the act referred to, ch. 8. to be entitled to ordinance. the Territory,etc. SEC. 3. That the officers for the said Territory who, by The officers for virtue of this act, shall be appointed by the President of the to exercise the same powers, United States, by and with the advice and consent of the perform the same provided, etc. duties, etc., as Senate, shall respectively exercise the same powers, perform Duties and emol the same duties, and receive for their services the same com uments of Super Governor united. intend ent and pensations, as by the ordinance aforesaid, and the laws of the United States, have been provided and established for similar officers in the Indiana Territory; and the duties and emoluments of Superintendent of Indian Affairs shall be united with those of Governor. Nothing in this act to affect the Indiana, further SEC. 4. That nothing in this act contained shall be construed Government of so as in any manner to affect the Government now in force in than to prohibit, the Indiana Territory, further than to prohibit the exercise thereof within the said Territory of Michigan, from and after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June next. etc. Suits, etc., pend ing in the court etc., or removed etc., to be pro judgments, etc., rendered, as if ded. SEC. 5. That all suits, process, and proceedings, which, on of any county the thirtieth day of June next, shall be pending in the from any county, court of any county, which shall be included within the ceeded on, and said Territory of Michigan; and also, all suits, process, and Indiana had re proceedings, which, on the said thirtieth day of June next, mained undivi-shall be pending in the General Court of the Indiana Territory, in consequence of any writ of removal, or order for trial at bar, and which had been removed from any of the counties included within the limits of the Territory of Michigan aforesaid, shall, in all things concerning the same, be proceeded on, and judgments and decrees rendered thereon, in the same manner as if the said Indiana Territory had remained undivided. SEC. 6. That Detroit shall be the Seat of Government of mment until, etc. the said Territory, until Congress shall otherwise direct. Detroit to be the ADMISSION OF MICHIGAN TO THE UNION. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF THE STATE OF OHIO, AND TO PROVIDE IN CONGRESS, JUNE 15, 1836. ary line of Ohio Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Northern boundthe United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the established. northern boundary line of the State of Ohio shall be established at, and shall be a direct line drawn from, the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, to the most northerly cape of the Maumee (Miami) bay, after that line so drawn shall intersect the eastern boundary line of the State of Indiana, and from the said north cape of the said bay, north-east to the boundary line between the United States and the Province of Upper Canada, in Lake Erie; and thence, with the said last mentioned line, to its intersection with the western line of the State of Pennsylvania. Michigan ratified SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Constitution and Constitution of State Government which the people of Michigan have formed for themselves be, and the same is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed, and that the said State of Michigan shall be, and is hereby declared to be one of the United States of America, and is hereby admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever : Provided always, And this admission is upon the express con- Proviso; condidition, that the said State shall consist of, and have jurisdic- into the Union. tion over, all the territory included within the following boundaries, and over none other, to wit: Beginning at the point tions of admission |