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said river, to that of the Bois des Sioux river; thence [up] the main channel of said 20 February 1857. river, to Lake Travers; thence, up the centre of said lake, to the southern extremity Boundaries. thereof; thence, in a direct line, to the head of Big Stone lake; thence, through its centre, to its outlet; thence, by a due south line, to the north line of the state of Iowa; thence east, along the northern boundary of said state, to the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, up the main channel of said river, and following the boundary line of the state of Wisconsin, until the same intersects the St. Louis river; thence, down said river, to and through Lake Superior, on the boundary line of Wisconsin and Michigan, until it intersects the dividing line between the United States and the British possessions; thence, up Pigeon river, and following said dividing line, to the place of beginning-be and they are hereby authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, by the name of the state of Minnesota, and to come into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, according to the federal constitution. 2. The said state of Minnesota shall have concurrent jurisdiction on the Mississippi and all other rivers and waters bordering on the said state of Minnesota, so far as the Concurrent jurissame shall form a common boundary to said state, and any other state or states now or diction on the Mississippi, &c. hereafter to be formed or bounded by the same. And said river and waters, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and for ever free, To be common highways. as well to the inhabitants of said state, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost or toll therefor.

Ibid. 2.

Ibid. 5.

3. That the following propositions be and the same are hereby offered to the said convention of the people of Minnesota, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if Propositions. accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory on the United States and upon the said state of Minnesota, to wit:

I. That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands School lands. in said state, and where either of said sections, or any part thereof, has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said state for the use of schools. (a)

versity.

II. That seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and Grant for a unisupport of a state university, to be selected by the governor of said state, subject to the approval of the commissioner of the general land office; and to be appropriated and applied in such manner as the legislature of said state may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose.(b)

III. That ten entire sections of land, to be selected by the governor of said state, in Lands for public legal subdivisions, shall be granted to said state, for the purpose of completing the buildings. public buildings, or for the erection of others, at the seat of government, under the direc

tion of the legislature thereof.

IV. That all salt springs within said state, not exceeding twelve in number, shall be Salt springs. granted to said state for its use; the same to be selected by the governor thereof, within one year after the admission of said state; and, when so selected, to be used and disposed of, on such terms, conditions and regulations as the legislature shall direct: Provided, That no salt spring, or land, the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which may be hereafter confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, shall, by this article, be granted to said state.

V. That five per centum of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within said state, which shall be sold by congress after the admission of the said state into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said state, for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements as the legislature shall direct.

Five per cent. of roof lands provements.

for public im

4. Provided, The foregoing propositions herein offered are on the condition that the Conditions. said convention which shall form the constitution of said state, shall provide, by a clause in said constitution, or an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that said state shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within Not to interfere with the disposal the same by the United States, or with any regulations congress may find necessary for of the public securing the title in said soil to bonâ fide purchasers thereof; and that no tax shall be lands. imposed on lands belonging to the United States; and that in no case shall non-resident Taxation. proprietors be taxed higher than residents.

11 May 1858 3 1.

11 Stat. 285.

Minnesota ad-
Union.

mitted into the

5. Whereas an act of congress was passed February 26th 1857, entitled "An act to authorize the people of the territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and state government preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original states ;" and whereas the people of said territory did, on the 29th day of August 1857, by delegates selected for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which is republican in form, and was ratified and adopted by the people, at an election held on the 13th day of October 1857, for that purpose: therefore, Be it (a) See Minnesota v. Bachelder, 1 Wall. 109. (b) See act 19 February 1851, 9 Stat, 568; and 2 March 1881, 12 Stat. 208.

11 May 1858. enacted, That the state of Minnesota shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever.

11 May 1858 3. 11 Stat. 285. Laws of the United States ex

Bota.

District court.

II. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS.

6. From and after the admission of the state of Minnesota, as herein before provided, all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within that state as in other states of the Union. And the said state is tended to Minne hereby constituted a judicial district of the United States, within which a district court, with the like powers and jurisdiction as the district court of the United States for the district of Iowa, shall be established; the judge, attorney and marshal of the United States for the said district of Minnesota shall reside within the same, and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge, attorney and marshal of the district of Pending appeals. Iowa. And in all cases of appeal or writ of error heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the supreme court of the United States, upon any record from the supreme court of Minnesota territory, the mandate of execution or order of further proceedings shall be directed by the supreme court of the United States to the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, or to the supreme court of the state of Minnesota, as the nature of such appeal or writ of error may require; and each of those courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Minnesota territory, as to all such cases, with full power to hear and determine the same, and to award mesne or final process therein. 7. The judge of the district court for the district of Minnesota shall hold a term of said court in each year at the following places, to wit: at Preston, to commence on the first Monday in June, and at St. Paul on the first Monday in October. The judge of the said court shall appoint a clerk for said district, who shall reside at and keep the records and papers of said court at either of the places herein designated for the holding of said court, as the judge in his discretion shall direct.

3 March 1859

11 Stat. 402.

Terms of the court.

1.

2 March 1861 27. 12 Stat. 220.

13 Jan. 1863 1. 12 Stat. 634.

5 April 1866 2 1. 14 Stat. 14.

Session trans

ferred to Winona.

8 July 18561. 11 Stat. 26. Two additional districts.

North-eastern district.

8. The judge of the district court for the district of Minnesota is hereby required to hold a term of said court in each year at Mankato, to commence on the first Monday in June, instead of at Preston, as now required by law; and so much of the act of congress approved March 3d 1859, requiring the said judge to hold a term of said court at Preston, is hereby repealed. (a)

9. The circuit court for the district of Minnesota shall be holden in each and every year at St. Paul, on the third Monday of June and October.

10. Hereafter, and until otherwise provided by law, there shall be held, annually, on the first Monday in June, a term of the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota at the city of Winona, in said district; and all process, writs and recognisances, civil and criminal, which may have been, or may hereafter be, issued and made returnable at Mankato, shall be returned to the said term of the said court at the said city of Winona, in like manner and with the like effect as if originally made returnable thereto.

III. LAND OFFICES.

11. That all that portion of the territory of Minnesota which lies north of the line dividing townships forty-five and forty-six, north of the base line east of the Mississippi river, and north of the nearest township line, to be determined hereafter by the commissioner of the general land office, west of said river, extending thence west to the Missouri river, be and the same is hereby divided into, and shall constitute two additional land districts, to wit: All that portion lying east of the line dividing ranges eighteen and nineteen west of the fourth principal meridian, shall constitute a land district, to be called the North-eastern land district: and all that portion west of the line dividing ranges eighteen and nineteen shall constitute an additional land district in Location of offi- said territory, to be called the North-western land district; the location of the offices for which shall be designated by the president of the United States, and shall, by him, from time to time, be changed, as the public interests may require.

North-western district.

сев.

Ibid. § 2.

Registers and receivers.

Ibid. § 3.

(a) See infra 10. holden at Mankato.

12. That the president be and he is hereby authorized, whenever, in his judgment, the public interest shall require, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate (or during the recess thereof, and until the end of the next session of congress after such appointment), a register and receiver for each or either of the districts hereby created; who shall, respectively, be required to reside at the site of their offices, have the same powers, responsibilities and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties which are or may be prescribed by law, in relation to other land offices of the United States.

13. The president is authorized to cause the public lands in said districts, with the

The 2d section of the act 5 April 1866 repeals so much of any law as requires a term of the district court to be 14 Stat. 14.

8 July 1856.

exception of such as have been or may be reserved for other purposes, to be exposed to sale, in the same manner, and upon the same terms and conditions as other public lands Sales of lands. of the United States.

11 Stat. 285.

north-western

14. That so much of an act entitled "An act to establish two additional land districts 11 May 1858 1. in the territory of Minnesota," approved July 8th, Anno Domini 1856, as defines the southern boundary of the North-western land district, on the west side of the Mississippi Boundaries of river, be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following boundaries district altered. are established, to wit: commencing at the point on the eastern side of the Mississippi river where the present south line touches the river; thence down said river to the point opposite the intersection with the river of the eighth standard parallel; thence along said parallel to the point of intersection of guide meridian number four; thence along said guide meridian to the seventh standard parallel; thence west along said seventh parallel to the Sioux Wood river; thence north to the line heretofore established.

Ibid. 2.

15 Stat. 184.

15. That the line dividing ranges twenty-three and twenty-four be the boundary line between the North-western and North-eastern land districts, in lieu of the range line between eighteen and nineteen, as heretofore established in the above-recited act. 16. That the president of the United States be and he is hereby authorized to 25 July 1868 2 1. establish an additional land district in the state of Minnesota, embracing all that part of the present north-western land district which lies north of township number one Additional land hundred and twenty-four north, and west of range number thirty-five, west of the fifth principal meridian, and to fix, from time to time, the boundaries thereof, which district shall be named after the place at which the office shall first be established; and the president shall have power to fix, from time to time, the location of the office for such district.

district.

Ibid. 2.

17. The president is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, a register and receiver for said land district, who shall be required Register and reto reside at the site of the land office for said district, who shall be subject to the same ceiver. laws and responsibilities, and whose compensation respectively shall be the same as that now allowed by law to other land officers in said state.

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1. The provisions of the 5th section of chapter 97 of the act of congress approved March 3d 1853, (a) requiring the secretary of the treasury to limit the amount of refining at the mint, whenever private establishments shall be capable of refining bullion, shall be extended to the several branches of the mint, and to the United States assay office at New York, in all cases where deposits of bullion are made for coins or fine bars. 2. The mint of the United States and branches shall continue to refine gold and silver bullion, and no contract to exchange crude or unparted bullion for refined bars shall be made until authorized by law.

II. BRANCHES OF THE MINT.

20 Feb. 1861 3 3.

12 Stat. 144.

Act limiting lion to be re

amount of bul

ceived for refin-
ing, extended to

assay office.
20 July 1868 21,

15 Stat. 114.

3. That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at 21 April 1862 § 1. Denver, in the territory of Colorado, for the coinage of gold.

12 Stat. 382.

Ibid 2.

4. For carrying on the business of said branch, the following officers shall be appointed, as soon as the public interest shall require their service, upon the nomination Officers of branch of the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, namely: one super- mint at Denver. intendent, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and the said superintendent shall employ as many clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, under the

(a) 1 vol. 635, pl. 44.

21 April 1862.

Salaries.

Ibid. 23. To give bond.

Ibid. 4.

or of the mint.

direction of the secretary of the treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: to the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the coiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, such wages and allowances as are customary, according to their respective stations and occupations.

5. The officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or affirmation, before some judge of the United States, or of the supreme court of said territory, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties of their offices; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint, or the secretary of the territory of Colorado, and of the secretary of the treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of their offices.

6. The general direction of the business of said branch of the mint of the United Powers of direct States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the secretary of the treasury; and for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and require such returns periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assaying, refining and coining, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said branch; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form and finish in the coin stamped at said branch.

Ibid. 25.

To be a deposito

ry for public moneys.

Ibid. 26.

Certificates of deposit may be issued.

Ibid. 7.

General laws extended to this brauch.

3 March 1863 1. 12 Stat. 770.

Branch mint at
Carson City.
Ibid. 2.

Appointment of officers.

Salaries.

Ibid. 3. Oath of office.

Bonds.

Ibid. 24.

Powers of direct

or of the mint.

7. Said branch mint shall be a place of deposit for such public moneys as the secretary of the treasury may direct; and the superintendent of said branch mint, who shall perform the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled “An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August 6th 1846, (a) which relates to the treasury of the branch mint at New Orleans.

8. That the superintendent of said branch mint be authorized, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, and on terms to be prescribed by him, to issue in payment of the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage or bars, drafts or certificates of deposit, payable at the treasury or any sub-treasury of the United States, to any depositor electing to receive payment in that form.

9. All the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United States, shall be and they are hereby declared to be in full force in relation to the branch of the mint by this act established, as far as the same may be applicable

thereto.

10. That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at Carson City, in the territory of Nevada, for the coinage of gold and silver.

11. For carrying on the business of said branch, the following officers shall be appointed, as soon as the public interest shall require their service, upon the nomination of the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, namely: one superintendent, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and the said superintendent shall employ as many clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: to the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, such wages and allowances as are customary, according to their respective stations and occupations. 12. The officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or affirmation, before some judge of the United States, or of the supreme court of said territory, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties of their offices; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint, or the secretary of the territory of Nevada, and of the secretary of the treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of the offices,

13. The general direction of the business of said branch of the mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint at Philadel phia, subject to the approbation of the secretary of the treasury; and for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and require such

(a) 1 vol. 884-9, pl. 43-62.

returns periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assay- 3 March 1863. ing, refining and coining as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said branch; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form and finish in the coin stamped at said branch.

Ibid. 25.

14. Said branch mint shall be a place of deposit for such public moneys as the secretary of the treasury may direct; and the superintendent of said branch mint, who To be a public shall perform the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and depository. also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled “An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August 6th 1846, (a) which relates to the treasury of the branch mint at New Orleans.

Ibid. 26.

15. That the superintendent of said branch mint be authorized, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, and on terms to be prescribed by him, to issue in payment Drafts to be is of the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage or bars, drafts or certifi- sued for gold cates of deposit, payable at the treasury or any sub-treasury of the United States, to any depositor electing to receive payment in that form.

dust.

Ibid. 27.

ed to this branch.

16. All the laws and parts of laws now in force for the regulation of the mint of the United States, and for the government of the officers and persons employed therein, and Laws regulating for the punishment of all offences connected with the mint or coinage of the United the mint extendStates, shall be and they are hereby declared to be in full force in relation to the branch of the mint by this act established, as far as the same may be applicable thereto. 17. That a branch of the mint of the United States be located and established at 4 July 1864 g 1. Dalles City, in the state of Oregon, for the coinage of gold and silver.

13 Stat. 382.

Dalles City.
Ibid. 2.

Officers.

18. For carrying on the business of the said branch the following officers shall be Branch mint at appointed, as soon as the public interest shall require their service, upon the nomination of the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, namely: one superintendent, one assayer and one melter and refiner and one coiner; and the superintendent shall employ as many clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, as may be required. The salaries of the Salaries. said officers and clerks shall be as follows: to the superintendent, the sum of two thousand dollars; to the assayer, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars; to the.melter and refiner, eighteen hundred dollars; to the clerks, subordinate workmen and laborers, such wages and allowances as are customary, according to their respective stations and occupations.

Ibid. 3.

19. The officers and clerks to be appointed under this act, before entering upon the execution of their offices, shall take an oath or affirmation before some judge of the Oath of office. United States, or of the supreme court of said state, faithfully and diligently to perform the duties of their offices; and shall each become bound to the United States of America, Bonds. with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the director of the mint, or the district judge of the United States for the district of Oregon, and of the secretary of the treasury, with the condition of the faithful performance of the duties of their offices.

Ibid. 4.

20. The general direction of the business of said branch mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the director of the mint, at Philadelphia, Powers of directsubject to the approbation of the secretary of the treasury; and for that purpose, it or of the mint. shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations, and to require such returns, periodically and occasionally, and to establish such charges for parting, assaying, refining and coining, as shall appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the intention of this act in establishing said branch; also for the purpose of preserving uniformity of weight, form and finish in the coin stamped at said branch.

Ibid. 25.

21. Said branch mint shall be a place of deposit for such public moneys as the secretary of the treasury may direct; and the superintendent of said branch mint, who To be a public shall perform the duties of treasurer thereof, shall have the custody of the same, and depository. also perform the duties of assistant treasurer; and for that purpose shall be subject to all the provisions contained in an act entitled "An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue," approved August 6th 1846, (a) which relates to the treasury of the branch mint at New Orleans.

Ibid. 6.

22. That the superintendent of said branch mint be authorized, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, and on terms to be prescribed by him, to issue in the Drafts to be is payment of the gold dust and bullion deposited for assay and coinage or bars, drafts qued for goud

(a) See 1 vol. tit. "Treasury Department," 43.

dust and bullion.

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