 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1858 - 428 pages
...object. I therefore cordially acquiesced in what has been called the English Compromise, and approved the "Act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union " upon the terms therein prescribed. application to be admitted under the Topeka constitution. Besides,... | |
 | United States - Law - 1859 - 970 pages
...contracts shall be made hereafter, except in cases of pressing exigency. APPROVED, May 4, 1858. CHAP. XXVI. — An Act for the Admission of the State of Kansas into the Union. jjay 4 isBS. Whereas, the" people, of the Territory of Kansas did, by a convention ~ of delegates assembled... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Kansas - 1858 - 246 pages
...the 80th of June, 1860: " And 6« itfu,rtht,r enacted. That the Jrat section of the act entitled ' An act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union,' approved May 4, 1858, be, and the same is hereby amended by striking out the following words, to wit... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 780 pages
...instructions, vi« : Insert a clause therein, or add a section thereto, repealing so much of the art entitled ' 'An act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union," approved May 4, 1858, as prohibits the people of Kansas from forming a constitution and asking admission... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 630 pages
...requesting that an appropriation may be made for the purpose of carrying into effect the act entitled il An act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union," and to request that you will give it the proper direction. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 878 pages
...court at Canton. Letter of the Secretary of State, asking an appropriation for carrying into effect the act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union. Letter of the Secretary of State, transmitting communications relative to the expediency of making... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1859 - 432 pages
...payments. The Secretary of War or of the Navy, if he makes any contract under the Act of 1820, cli. 52, $ 6, shall promptly report to Congress the reasons...right to tax the lands of the United States within lier limits, which right it proposed to surrender on certain conditions therein set forth ; that admission... | |
 | Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...month this report was adopted by both branches of Congress, and it became law. It is as follows : — AN ACT FOR THE ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS INTO THE UNION. " Whereas the people of the Territory of Kansas did, by a convention of delegates assembled at Lecompton... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...of April, the report of the Committee was adopted by both branches of Congress. It was as follows: An Act for the Admission of the State of Kansas into the Union,—Whereas, the people of the Territory of Kansas did, by a convention of delegates assembled... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...topics, in discussing the affairs of Kansas. The debate was finally concluded by the passage of the " Act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union," of the 4th May, 1858.* This act, which .had been reported by a Committee of Conference of both Houses,... | |
| |
I therefore cordially acquiesced in what has been called the English compromise and approved the "act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union ' ' upon the terms therein prescribed. 
