ordinance, be, and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Done, &c.

Whereas the United States in Congress assembled did, on the seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, state certain reasons, showing that a division of the territory which hath been ceded to the said United States, by this commonwealth, into States, in conformity to the terms of cession, should the same be adhered to, would be attended with many inconveniences, and did recommend a revision of the act of cession, so far as to empower Congress to make such a division of the said territory into distinct and republican States, not more than five nor less than three in number, as the situation of that country and future circumstances might require: and the said United States in Congress assembled have, in an ordinance for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth of

of latitude, beginning to count from the completion of forty-five degrees north of the equator: and by meridians of longitude, one of which shall pass through the lowest point of the rapids of Ohio, and the other through the western cape of the mouth of the great Kanhaway; but the territory eastward of this last meridian, between the Ohio, lake Erie, and Pennsylvania, shall be one State, whatsoever may be its comprehension of latitude. That which may lie beyond the completion of the 45th degree, between the said meridians, shall make part of the State adjoining it on the south; and that part of the Ohio, which is between the same meridians, coinciding nearly with the parallel of 39 degrees, shall be substituted so far in lieu of that parallel as a boundary line.

That the settlers on any territory so purchased and offered for sale, shall, either on their own petition or on the order of Congress, receive authority from them, with appointments of time and place, for their free males of full age, within the limits of their State, to meet together, for the purpose of establishing a temporary government, to adopt the constitution and laws of any one of the original States, so that such laws, nevertheless, shall be subject to alteration by their ordinary legislature; and to erect, subject to a like alteration, counties, townships, or other divisions, for the election of members for their legislature.

That when any such State shall have acquired twenty thousand free inhabitants, on giving due proof thereof to Congress, they shall receive from them authority, with appointments of time and place, to call a convention of representatives to establish a permanent constitution and government for themselves. Provided, that both the temporary and permanent governments be established on these principles as their basis:

1. That they shall for ever remain a part of this confederacy of the United States of America.

2. That they shall be subject to the articles of confederation in all those cases in which the original States shall be so subject, and to all the acts and ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto.

3. That they, in no case, shall interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with the ordinances and regulations which Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.

4. That they shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted, or to be contracted, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States.

July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, declared the following as one of the articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, viz:

[Here the 5th article of compact, of the ordinance of Congress of 13th July, 1787, is recited verbatim. See ante, page 297.]

And it is expedient that this Commonwealth do assent to the proposed alteration, so as to ratify and confirm the said article of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory.

2. Be it, therefore, enacted, by the General Assembly, That the aforerecited article of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the territory northwest of Ohio river, be, and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, any thing to the contrary, in the deed of cession of the said territory by this Commonwealth to the United States, notwithstanding.

5. That no tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States. 6. That their respective governments shall be republican.

7. That the lands of non-resident proprietors shall, in no case, be taxed higher than those of residents within any new State, before the admission thereof to a vote by its delegates in Congress.

That whensoever any of the said States shall have, of free inhabitants, as many as shall then be in any one the least numerous of the thirteen original States, such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the said original States; provided the consent of so many States in Congress is first obtained as may, at the time, be competent to such admission. And in order to adapt the said articles of confederation to the state of Congress when its numbers shall be thus increased, it shall be proposed to the legislatures of the States, originally parties thereto, to require the assent of two-thirds of the United States in Congress assembled, in all those cases wherein, by the said articles, the assent of nine States is now required, which, being agreed to by them, shall be binding on the new States. Until such admission by their delegates into Congress, any of the said States, after the establishment of their temporary government, shall have authority to keep a member in Congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting. That measures, not inconsistent with the principles of the confederation, and necessary for the preservation of peace and good order among the settlers in any of the said new States, until they shall assume a temporary government as aforesaid, may, from time to time, be taken by the United States in Congress assembled.

That the preceding articles shall be formed into a charter of compact; shall be duly executed by the President of the United States in Congress assembled, under his hand, and the seal of the United States; shall be promulgated; and shall stand as fundamental constitutions between the thirteen original States, and each of the several States now newly described, unalterable from and after the sale of any part of the territory of such State, pursuant to this resolve, but by the joint consent of the United States in Congress assembled, and of the particular State within which such alteration is proposed to be made.-Journals of Congress.

Abstract of the Laws of Prussia of December 31, 1842, on the subject of Emigration and of Military Service.

PARAGRAPH 15.-The quality of a Prussian subject is lost : 1st. By discharge upon the subject's request: 2nd. By sentence of the competent authority: 3rd. By living ten years in a foreign country:

4th. By marriage of a female Prussian with a foreigner.

PARAGRAPH 16.

The discharge has to be asked from the police authority of the province in which the subject's domicil is situated, and is effected by a document made out by the same authority.

PARAGRAPH 17.-The discharge cannot be granted:

1st. To male subjects who are between seventeen and twentyfive years of age, until they have got a certificate of the military commission of recruitment of their district, proving that their application for discharge is not made merely to avoid the fulfilling of their military duty in the standing army:

2nd. To actual soldiers belonging either to the standing army or to the reserve, to officers of the militia, and to public functionaries, before their being discharged from service.

3rd. To subjects having formerly served as officers in the standing army or the militia, or having been appointed military employés with the rank of officers of civil functionaries, before they have got the consent of their former chief.

4th. To the persons belonging to the militia, not being officers, after their having been convoked for actual service.

PARAGRAPH 18.

To subjects wishing to emigrate into a State of the German confederacy, the discharge may be refused if they cannot prove that the said State is willing to receive them. (See Act of the German Confederation, Art. 18, No. 2, letter A.)

PARAGRAPH 19.

For other reasons than those specified in Paragraphs 17 and 18, the discharge cannot be refused in time of peace. For the time of war special regulations will be made.

PARAGRAPH 20.

The document of discharge effects, at the moment of its delivery, the loss of the quality as Prussian subjects.

PARAGRAPH 21.

If there is no special exception, the discharge comprehends also the wife and the minor children that are still under the father's authority.

PARAGRAPH 22..

Subjects living in Foreign Countries may lose their quality as Prussians by a declaration of the police authority of Prussia, if they do not obey, within the time fixed to them, the express summons for returning to their country.

Subjects who either,

PARAGRAPH 23.

1st. Leave our States without permission, and do not return within ten years, or

2nd. Leave our States with permission, but do not return within ten years after the expiration of the term granted by the said permission, lose their quality as Prussian subjects.

PARAGRAPH 24.-Entering into public service in a Foreign State.

The entering of a subject into public service in a foreign State is allowed only after his discharge (see paragraph 20,) has been granted to him. Any body who has obtained it, is permitted to do so without restriction.

A subject who,

PARAGRAPH 25,

1st. Either takes public service in a foreign State with our immediate permission:

2nd. Or is appointed in our State by a foreign Power in an office established with our permission, as, for instance, that of Consul, Commercial Agent, &c., remains in his quality as a Prussian.

PARAGRAPH 26.-General Disposition.

Subjects who emigrate without having obtained their discharge, or violate, by their entering into public service in a foreign State, the disposition of Paragraph 24, are to be punished according to the laws existing in that respect.

Extract from the Constitution of Prussia of 1850.

Tit: II. Rights of the Prussians.

Art: 11. The right to emigrate cannot be restricted by the State, except with respect to the duty of military service.

Extract from Circular to Consuls and Commercial Agents of the United States, from Department of State, dated September 18, 1854.

Consuls and Commercial Agents, &c., are prohibited, under a heavy fine, by the 2d section of the Act of 28th of February, 1803, from granting a passport or other paper, certifying that an alien, knowing him or her to be such, is a citizen of the United States, and they should be careful not to be led into a violation of this Act by granting a passport as an American citizen to an alien who may have become domiciled in the United States, or to a foreigner who has merely declared his intention to become an American citizen. Both of these classes of persons, however, may be entitled to some recognition by this Government, and this can be afforded by merely certifying to the genuineness of their papers when presented for attestation, provided the Consul or Commercial Agent should have no reasonable doubts of their authenticity. Consuls and Commercial Agents are instructed, in no case to grant or visé passports to foreigners coming to the United States, as no such papers are required in this country, and to supply or visé them would only subject the applicants to an unnecessary expense.

The attention of Consuls and Commercial Agents located at ports where there is more or less emigration to the United States, is particularly called to the General Regulations, No. 34, issued on the 26th of August last by the Treasury Department; and they will not omit to report any violation, which may come to their knowledge, of the laws of the United States regulating passenger ships and vessels. They will, also, not omit, in cases of the intended shipment of paupers and pardoned convicts to this country, to give timely notice of the fact, both to this Department and to the Collector of the Customs at the port to which the vessel having them on board may be bound, furnishing the names of the parties, a description of their persons, the name of the vessel, the date of sailing, &c., in order that proper steps may be taken for the enforcement such police regulations as may have been adopted by the several States upon the subject.