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Section.

Boundaries 1, 2

Executive 3-10

Legislative 11-25

Judiciary 26-51

Seat of government 52

Delegate in congress 53, 54

Offices and officers 55-71

Elections 72-74

Educational 75-77

Experimental station 78-87

Section.

Reservation of school lands 88

Public lands 89-96

Restrictions upon holding ot real estate 97- 100

Indians 101-109

Public indebtedness 110-112

Private corporations and associations 113-123

Militia 124-128

Marriage, crimes against the marriage relation, etc. 129-133

United States prisons 134-138

Section.

1. Boundaries of Dakota.

Section.

2. Northern boundary of Nebraska extended so as to include a portion of Dakota.

§ [1.] All that part of the territory of the United States incluaed within the following limits, namely: Commencing at a point in the main channel of the Red River of the North, where the forty-ninth degree of north latitude crosses the same; thence up the main channel of the same and along the boundary of the state of Minnesota to Big Stone lake; thence along the boundary line of the state of Minnesota to the Iowa line; thence along the boundary line of the state of Iowa to the point of intersection between the Big Sioux and Missouri rivers; thence up the Mis­souri river and along the boundary line of the state of Nebraska to the mouth of the Niobrara or Running Water river; thence following up the same, in the middle of the main channel there­ of, to the mouth of the Keya Paha or Turtle Hill river; thence up that river to the forty-third parallel of north latitude; thence due west to the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence due north on that meridian to the forty-ninth degree of north latitude ; thence east on the for­ty-ninth degree of north latitude to the place of beginning, is organized into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Dakota.

§ [2.] The northern boundary of the state of Nebraska shall be, and hereby is, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, extended so as to include all that portion of the territory of Da­kota lying south of the forty-third parallel of north latitude and east of the Keya Paha river and west of the main channel of the Missouri river; and when the Indian title to the lands thus de­scribed shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said land shall be, and hereby is, ceded to the state of Nebraska, and subject to all the conditions and limitations provided in the act of congress admitting Nebraska into the union, and the northern boundary of the state shall be extended to said forty-third paral­lel as fully and effectually as if said lands had been included in the boundaries of said state at the time of its admission into the union; reserving to the United States the original right of soil in said lands, and of disposing of the same; Provided, That this act, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, shall not take effect until the president shall by proclamation declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished, nor shall it take effect until the state of Nebraska shall have assented to the provisions of this act, and if the state of Nebraska, shall not, by an act of its