...altered, that if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory,...into the congress of the United States, on an equal fooling with the original states in all respects whatsoever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent...

...altered, that if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory,...extreme of lake . Michigan: And whenever any of the said stales shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such Slate shall be admitted by its delegates...

...inhabitants, as many as shall then be in any one the least numerous of the thirteen original states, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into...of the United States, on an equal footing with the said original states; provided the consent of so many states in Congress is first obtained as may at...

...inhabitants, as many as sh'all then be in any one the least numerous of the thirteen original states, wch state shall be admitted by its delegates into the...of the United States, on an equal footing with the said original states ; provided the consent of so many states in Congress is first obtained as may...

...altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which...through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.' By this it would seem that Congress had no express power to continue a Territorial Government, after...

...in that part of said territory, which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southern bend or extreme of lake Michigan. And whenever any...United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state...

...boundaries so far, and no farther, as to form one or two States in that part of the aforesaid three States which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. This, when done, would only alter the north boundary of the three States first formed, so that, instead...

...be the right of forming a permanent constitution and State government, and of admission as a State, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever, when it should have therein sixty thousand free inhabitants ; provided...

...altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which...through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." We also quote a resolution of Congress, passed April 23d, 1784, as follows, to wit: "Resolved, That...

...thereafter find it expedient, they should ' have authority to form one or two States in that part of said territory which lies north of an east and west...through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.' [See ordinance.] In 1S02, Congress, by act of legislation, enabled the people of the ' eastern division...