| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 702 pages
...act of annexation that Texas shall enjoy all the rights and privileges now secured to that portion of territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, and lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude. Be it further molted, tfc., That... | |
| Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...frame of state government, as shall be formed or provided, to be transmitted to congress. 7. SEC. vin. In all that territory ceded by France to the United...Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 636 pages
...and state government; — by the 8th section of this act, slavery is forever prohibited in all the territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36° 30 ' north latitude, not included in the contemplated state. 1821. March 2d, congress passed a... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...was not then applied. In the act passed for this purpose, there is an express clause, that in all the territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36° 30' N. Lat., not included within the limits of the state of Missouri, slavery and involuntary... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...Congress is also admitted in the act of March 6, 1820, which declares that, in all that territory ceded under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six...north latitude, "slavery and involuntary servitude shall be forever prohibited." Where slavery existed in the States, at the time of the adoption of the... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 650 pages
...The very clause of that statute in which the celebrated compromise consists— the provision " that in all that territory ceded by France to the United...Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes nortli latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this... | |
| Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...passed, shall have any force or effect whatever, until approved and confirmed by congress.(3) ABT. 675. In all that territory ceded by France to the United...Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty (1) Ordinance, 1787, (3) Act 1st July, 1836, sec. 1. (2) Ibid. minutes north latitude, not... | |
| Joseph M. White - Colonies - 1839 - 762 pages
...Rtpresentativet of the "United States of America in Congress assembled. That all that portion of country ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies south of the Mississippi territory, and of an east and west line, to commence on the Mississippi river,... | |
| Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 624 pages
...decide it by compromise. By this, Missouri was admitted without restriction, but it was provided ' that in all that territory ceded by France to the United...Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1844 - 440 pages
...compromise," to wit: "Sr.cTlo.i fl. tfnd be it further rnarttd. That in all that territory ceded by Trance to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated... | |
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