ACT OF CONGRESS (1864)
ENABLING THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA TO FORM A
CONSTITUTION AND STATE GOVERNMENT
Sec. 4.
Authorization to form constitution and state government; limitations.
And be it further
enacted,
That the members of the convention, thus elected,
shall meet at the capital of said territory on the
first Monday in July next, and, after organization, shall declare, on behalf of the people of said territory,
that they adopt the constitution of the United States. Whereupon the said convention shall be, and it is
hereby, authorized to form a constitution and state government for said territory:
Provided,
That the
constitution, when formed, shall be republican,
and not repugnant to the constitution of the United States,
and the principles of the Declaration of Independence:
And provided further, That said convention shall
provide, by an ordinance irrevocable, without the consent of the United States and the people of said
state:—
First. That there shall be neither slavery nor invo
luntary servitude in the said state, otherwise than in the
punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
Second. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said state
shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.
Third. That the people inhabiting said territory do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right
and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain
at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and that the lands belonging to citizens of the United
States residing without the said state shall never be taxed higher than the land belonging to the residents
thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said state on lands or property therein belonging to, or which
may hereafter be purchased by, the United States.
Nevada Constitutional Debates and Proceedings, p. 6
AN ACT to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States.
(Approved February 22, 1889.) [25 U.S. Statutes at Large, c 180 p 676.]
[President's proclamation declaring Washington a state: 26 St. at Large, Proclamations, p 10, Nov. 11, 1889.]
SEC. 4. That the delegates to the conventions elected as provided for in this act shall meet at the seat of government of each of said Territories, except the delegates elected in South Dakota, who shall meet at the city of Sioux Falls, on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and, after organization, shall declare, on behalf of the people of said proposed States, that they adopt the Constitution of the United States; whereupon the said conventions shall be, and are hereby, authorized to form constitutions and States governments for said proposed states, respectively. The constitutions shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and
not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. And said conventions shall provide, by ordinances irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said States:
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noun
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Examples of FRONT MATTER
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First Known Use of FRONT MATTER
circa 1909