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. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be ascertained by an actual census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the territory of Orleans, taken by proper authority, that the number of free inhabitants included therein shall amount to sixty thousand, they shall thereupon be authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and be admitted into the Union upon the footing of the original states, in all respects whatever, conformably to the provisions of the third article of the treaty, concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic: Provided, that the constitution so to be established shall be republican, and not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, nor inconsistent with the, so far as the same is made applicable to the territorial government hereby authorized to be established: Provided however, that Congress shall be at liberty, at any time prior to the admission of the inhabitants of the said territory to the right of a separate state, to alter the boundaries thereof as they may judge proper:—Except only, that no alteration shall be made which shall procrastinate the period for the admission of the inhabitants thereof to the rights of a state government according to the provision of this act.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, intituled “,” as is repugnant with this act, shall, from and after the first Monday of November next, be repealed. And the residue of the said act shall continue in full force, until repealed, any thing in the sixteenth section of the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

, March 2, 1805.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That persons who may have obtained, or shall obtain certificates from the board of commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands in the Mississippi territory, shall be allowed three months after the respective date of such certificates, for entering the same with the register of the proper land-office; and certificates, thus entered, shall have the same force and effect, as if they had been duly entered with the said register, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and five.

. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands, in the above-mentioned territory, east of Pearl river, shall be authorized to grant certificates for lands lying in the island known by the name of Nannee Hubba, formed by the cut off of the river Tombigbee and Alabamaha; and persons having claims for lands lying either in said island, or east of the Tombigbee and Alabamaha rivers, shall be permitted to file the same with the register of the land-office, till the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and five; and the commissioners shall decide on the same, in the same manner as if they had been presented before the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.

. And be it further enacted, That each of the last mentioned commissioners, shall be allowed at the rate of six dollars a day, for every day he shall attend, subsequent to the first day of April, one thousand