1st Session. WISKONSIN. 가! PETITION FOR A repeal of so much of the act of Congress of April 18, 1818, as conflicts with the ordinance of 1787. MAY 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: Whereas, by the ordinance of 1787, passed for the government of the Territory northwest of the river Ohio, the boundaries of the States were definitively described; and whereas, on the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union, a part of the fifth State was placed under the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois: and whereas, your petitioners believe that justice requires a reconsideration of this question; They would, therefore, respectfully request your honorable bodies, to repeal so much of the act admitting Illinois into the Union, as comes in collision with the ordinance of 1787; and restore to us our original rights; and your petitioners (citizens of the disputed district of the county of Boone), as in duty bound, will ever pray. Nathaniel Crosby W. T. Hyde J. Dean Joseph O. Pinc Richard S. Molony James C. Gooch Henry H. Cushman Lucius C. Walker John Whitney Lyman Andrews Matthew S. Molony J. D. Cowles Stephen Abrahames William Bothwell D. Sheldon 1st Session. WISKONSIN. PETITION FOR A repeal of so much of the act of Congress of April 18, 1818, as conflicts with the ordinance of 1787. MAY 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled: We, the undersigned, citizens of Stephenson county, Illinois, would RESPECTFULLY REPRESENT: That that portion of the State of Illinois, embracing said county, lies north of an east and west line drawn through the most southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan; that the tract or country lying north of the line aforesaid is claimed by the Territory of Wiskonsin, under the ordinance of 1787, which claim, in the opinion of your petitioners, is first and should be allowed. We, therefore, whose names are hereunto annexed, citizens and qualified voters in the county aforesaid, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to repeal so much of the act for the admission of Illinois, as conflicts with the ordinance before referred to, and to restore to the inhabitants resident upon the tract of country north of the above-described line, and now embraced in the State of Illinois, their ancient rights secured to them by the ordinance aforesaid. And, as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. James Hart Luther W. Guiteau John Howe John Rice A. B. Guiteau Wm. H. Wollenbeck John Randolph Howe George Kavenaugh C. Miller O. A. Bennet Saml. F. Dodder Henry A. Early J. B. Barr David De Graff John Walsh Job S. Watson Jared Sheetz John B. Kaufman Walter P. Hunt T. A. McDowell L. O. Crocker John A. Clark Benj. Godard. Phineas Crane H. W. Hollenbeck Egbert Macomber John Godard L. B. Bennet Horatio Hunt John C. Woodworth J. Marsh Wm. W. Buck Elias H. D. Sanborn B. R. Willmott 1st Session. WISKONSIN. PETITION FOR 1 A repeal of so much of the act of Congress of April 18, 1818, as conflicts with the ordinance of 1787. MAY 25, 1840. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled: We, the undersigned, citizens of Stephenson county, Illinois, would RESPECTFULLY REPRESENT: That that portion of the State of Illinois, embracing said county, lies north of an east and west line drawn through the most southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan; that the tract or country lying north of the line aforesaid is claimed by the Territory of Wiskonsin, under the ordinance of 1787, which claim, in the opinion of your petitioners, is first and should be allowed. We, therefore, whose names are hereunto annexed, citizens and qualified voters in the county aforesaid, would most respectfully petition your honorable body to repeal so much of the act for the admission of Illinois, as conflicts with the ordinance before referred to, and to restore to the inhabitants resident upon the tract of country north of the above-described line, and now embraced in the State of Illinois, their ancient rights secured to them by the ordinance aforesaid. And, as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray. James Hart Luther W. Guiteau John Howe John Rice A. B. Guiteau George Kavenaugh C. Miller |