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APPENDIX 7

TERRITORIAL ACT PROVIDING FOR EXPENSES OF CONVENTION

An Act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the convention to form a constitution for the State of Minnesota, in accordance with an act of congress, approved March 3, 1857.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota:

SECTION 1. That on the first Monday of June next, the qualified electors of the Territory of Minnesota, shall assemble at their respective places appointed by law for the opening of the polls, and shall there proceed to elect by ballot, certain delegates for a Convention to form a Constitution and State Government for this Territory.

SEC. 2. Every Council District in this Territory shall elect two Delegates for every Councillor it may be entitled to in the Legislative Council, and every Representative District shall elect two Delegates for every member they may be entitled to in the House of Representatives; Provided, That whenever any District has been subdivided in order to elect their Representative in the Legislative Assembly, the same subdivision shall govern in the election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

SEC. 3. That there be appropriated, out of any money in the Territorial Treasury, unappropriated, for mileage and per diem of members, officers and secretaries, and for stationery, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. That the members, officers, and Secretaries of said Convention shall be entitled to the same mileage and per diem as members of the Legislative Assembly; Provided, That the presiding officer shall be entitled to three dollars per day extra.

SEC. 5. The compensation herein provided, for the members, officers and secretaries, shall be certified by the presiding officer, and attested by the Secretary, as well as all claims for stationery, printing, and all other incidental expenses, which said certificates, when so certified, shall be sufficient evidence to the Territorial Treasurer of each persons claim.

SEC. 6. The qualifications of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention shall be the same as the qualifications for members of the House of Representatives or the Legislative Assembly.

SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved-May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

APPENDIX 8

ACT OF ADMISSION

11 U. S. Statutes at Large, 285; 35 Congress, I sess., ch. 31.

CHAP. XXXI.-An Act for the Admission of the State of Minnesota into the Union. Whereas an act of congress was passed February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An act to authorize the people of the territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and state government preparatory to their admission into the union on an equal footing with the original states;" and whereas the people of said territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, by delegates elected for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which is republican in form, and was ratified and adopted by the people, at an election held on the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for that purpose: therefore

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the state of Minnesota shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said state shall be entitled to two representatives in congress until the next apportionment of representatives among the several states. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the admission of the state of Minnesota, as hereinbefore provided, all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within that state as in other states of the union; and the said state is hereby constituted a judicial district of the United States, within which a district court, with the like powers and jurisdiction as the district court of the United States for the district of Iowa, shall be established; the judge, attorney, and marshal of the United States for the said district of Minnesota shall reside within the same, and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge, attorney, and marshal of the district of Iowa: and in all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the supreme court of the United States, upon any record from the supreme court of Minnesota territory, the mandate of execution or order of further proceedings shall be directed by the supreme court of the United States to the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, or to the supreme court of the state of Minnesota, as the nature of such appeal or writ of error may require; and each of those courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Minnesota territory, as to all such cases, with full power to hear and determine the same, and to award mesne or final process therein.

Approved, May 11, 1858.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A brief list of the more important sources and secondary materials.

I. ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS

1. The two originals of the Minnesota constitution, signed by the members of the respective conventions. (Temporarily on file in the Manuscript Division of the Minnesota Historical Society, where they are being pressed and put in condition for better preservation.)

2. Enrolled laws of the state of Minnesota, 1858-1919. Secretary of State.

3. Minnesota Archives, Legislative and Executive, Manuscript Division, Minnesota Historical Society.

4. Various collections of manuscripts, papers, etc., including the McLeod Papers, Ramsey Papers, Sibley Papers, Steele Papers, and Stevens Papers, as well as others. Manuscript Division, Minnesota Historical Society.

II. NEWSPAPERS

1. Advertiser, St. Paul, weekly, for the years 1856-57.

2. Daily Minnesotian, St. Paul, daily, for the years 1855-58.

3. Pioneer and Democrat, St. Paul, daily, for the years 1855-58.

4. Other Minnesota newspapers were consulted only upon special points; no attempt was made to scan all the extant newspapers even for the period 1856-58. The library of the Minnesota Historical Society is rich in this type of material.

III. UNITED STATES Laws, OFFICIAL REPORTS, OFFICIAL JOURNALS, Debates, etc. 1. Congressional Globe; containing the debates and proceedings of..........Congress. Washington: John C. Rives.

2. Congress, House Reports.

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House Documents.

Senate Reports.

Senate Documents.

Laws of the United States of America......including the constitution of the United States, the old act of confederation, treaties, and many other valuable ordinances and documents. 10 volumes. Washington: Government. 1815-45. Revised statutes of the United States. 2d ed. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1878.

Statutes at large of the United States of America. Vol. 1-date. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1856-date.

9. MALLOY, W. M., compiler. Treaties, conventions, international acts, protocols and agreements between the United States of America and other powers, 1776-1909. 2 volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1910. (Sen. doc. 61st Cong. 2d sess. no. 357.)

10. Supreme court. United States reports;......cases adjudged in the Supreme court. Vol. 1-241, 1790-Oct. 1910. 241 volumes in 210. New York, etc. 1882-1916.

IV. MINNESOTA LAWS, OFFICIAL JOURNALS, DEBATES, ETC.

1. Attorney general. Opinions....from the organization of the state to Jan. 1, 1884. St. Paul: West Publishing Company. 1884. 596 pages.

From that date to the present, they are found in separate volumes, as the annual reports of his office.

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