...provided and required in the said act that the above described boundaries of the State of Michigan shall receive the assent of a convention of delegates, elected by the people of the said State for the sole purpose of giving such assent : and whereas, no authority is designated...

..." That, as a compliance with the fundamental condition of admission contained in the last preceding section of this act, the boundaries of the said State...sole purpose of giving the assent herein required," &c. Now, that was the provision to which this preamble has a reference. Did that section say that the...

...admission, the boundaries of the State of Michigan, as thus described, declared, and established, should " receive the assent of a convention of delegates, elected...said State for the sole purpose of giving the assent therein required ; that, as soon as such assent should be given, the President of the United States...

...admission " into the Union, the boundaries of the State of Michigan, as we then established them, " shall receive the assent of a convention of delegates elected by the people of said State, for the solo purpose of giving the assent herein required." Shall we now, after Michigan has given this assent...

...admission, the boundaries of the State of Michigan, as thus described, declared, and established, should " receive the assent of a convention of delegates, elected by the people of Baid State for the sole purpose of giving the assent therein required ; that, as soon as such assent...

...enacted, That, as a compliance with the fundamental condition of admission contained in the last preceding section of this act, the boundaries of the said State...people of said State, for the sole purpose of giving tho assent herein required ; and as soon as the assent herein required shall be given, the President...

...enacted, that, as a compliance with the fundamental condition of admission contained in the last preceding section of this Act, the boundaries of the said State...a Convention of delegates elected by the people of the said State, for the sole purpose of giving the assent herein required." l It then made it the duty...

...and established, shall receive the assent of a Convention of delegates elected by the people of the said State, for the sole purpose of giving the assent herein required." 1 It then made it the duty of the President of the United States, as soon as such assent should have...

...modification of its boundaries, and proceeded to require, as a fundamental condition, that these should "receive the assent of a Convention of delegates elected by the people of tho said State, for the sole purpose of giving the assent herein required." a Such a Convention, duly...

...portion ceded to Ohio. The third section of the Act provided that the boundaries thus established should receive the assent of a convention of delegates elected by the people of Michigan for the sole purpose of giving that assent ; that as soon as the assent should be given, the...