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JOHN S. HORNER, Secretary and Acting Governor of Michigan Territory.

I, John S. Horner, Secretary, and at present Acting Governor in and over the Territory of Michigan, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original returns of said census on file in the office of the Secretary of this Territory. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of said Territory to be hereunto affixed, this 21st day of November, 1835.

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A No. 3.

AN ACT to enable the people of Michigan to form a Constitution and State Government.

Whereas it is ordained and declared, in and by the ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, passed by Congress on the 13th day of July, 1787, that certain articles therein contained "shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said Territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent:"

And whereas it is stipulated in and by the fifth of the said articles of compact, that there shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three, nor more than five States; and that "the boundaries of the three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan:"

And whereas it is stipulated in the said article that the said three States shall be bounded on the north either by the territorial line between the United States and Canada, or the said east and west line:

And whereas Congress has not admitted the said three States into the Union, according to the boundaries mentioned in the said article:

And whereas it is provided in and by an act of Congress entitled “An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate Governments," approved January 11, 1805, as follows, to wit:

"SECTION 1. That all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend, through the middle of said lake, to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory and be called Michigan:

"SECTION 2. The inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to and enjoy all and singular the rights, privileges and advantages granted and secured to the people of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, by the said ordinance: "

And whereas it was the right and privilege of sixty thousand free inhabitants within the limits of Indiana, according to the said ordinance, to form for themselves a permanent constitution and State Government :

And whereas the same right and privilege is granted by the act aforesaid to the people of Michigan, whenever there shall be sixty thousand free inhabitants within the limits mentioned in the said act:

And whereas it is ascertained, under the authority of an act of the Le'gislative Council, passed on the 6th day of September, 1834, that there now are eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-three free inhabitants within the limits prescribed for Michigan by the act aforesaid: Therefore, for the purpose of enabling the free inhabitants of the said Territory to secure to themselves the rights and privileges guarantied to them by the said ordinance and acts of Congress :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, That the said free inhabitants of the Territory of Michigan, as the said Territory was established by the act of Congress entitled

"An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate Governments," approved January 11, 1805, that is to say, of all that territory which lies north and east of a west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan, east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend, through the middle of said lake, to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, and west and south of the said boundary of the United States, be, and they are hereby, authorized to assemble to choose delegates in the manner and at the time and place herein after mentioned, to form for themselves a constitution and State Government, upon the principles and according to the provisions contained in the ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio," adopted in Congress the 13th day of July, 1787.

SECTION 2. That the free white male inhabitants of the said Territory, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall reside therein three months immediately preceding Saturday, the 4th day of April next, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, be, and they are hereby, authorized to choose delegates to form a convention, who shall be elected in the several districts as follows, to wit: the county of Wayne shall form the first election district, and shall be entitled to elect seventeen delegates to the said convention; the county of Monroe shall form the second district, and shall be entitled to elect nine delegates; the county of Lenawee shall form the third district, and shall be entitled to elect eight delegates; the county of Washtenaw, and the county attached thereto for judicial purposes, shall form the fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect fifteen delegates; the county of Oakland, and the county attached thereto for judicial purposes, shall form the fifth district, and shall be entitled to elect fourteen delegates; the county of Macomb shall form the sixth district, and shall be entitled to elect six delegates: the county of St. Clair shall form the seventh district, and shall be entitled to elect two delegates; the county of Jackson shall form the eighth district, and shall be entitled to elect two delegates; the counties of Hillsdale and Branch, and all that part of the Territory lying south of the county of Branch, shall form the ninth district, and be entitled to elect one delegate; the county of Calhoun shall form the tenth district, and be entitled to elect two delegates; the county of Kalamazoo, and the county attached thereto for judicial purposes, shall form the eleventh district, and shall be entitled to elect three delegates; the county of Cass, and all that part of the Territory lying south of the said county, shall form the twelfth district, and be entitled to elect three delegates; the county of St. Joseph, and all that part of the Territory lying south thereof, shall form the thirteenth district, and be entitled to elect three delegates; the county of Berrien, and all that part of the Territory situated south and southwest thereof, shall form the fourteenth district, and be entitled to elect two delegates; the county of Michilimackinac shall form the fifteenth district, and shall be entitled to elect one delegate; and the county of Chippewa shall form the sixteenth district, and be entitled to elect one delegate. The aforesaid delegates shall be citizens of the United States, of at least the age of twenty-one years.

SECTION 3. The election for the said delegates shall be holden on Saturday, the fourth day of April next, in the several townships within the said several election districts, and shall be in every respect held and conducted in the same manner, and under the same regulations, and the result

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