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 1853 · ORDINANOE OF 17’8'2': THE NORTH 1 ject wtnr to be altered, that, lf. Congress shall hereafter ilnd 1 it expedient, they shall hive authority to form one "or* two Staten in that part of. the mid territory_ which lies north of 33 east and west  drown thmoghithe `wiztherly bend or ex- t artune et Lakeiuchign. And whenevnmany of theeaid Smtes shall have sixty thonmnd free inhabitants therein, so h State jsmla he admitted, by lt8\del@¤tges,_ intefthe Gongrg‘)f*tk·e 1'nitecl- Staten, on an equal footing with the original States, . in all mshects whatever`; and shall. he at liberty to form a lpernnanoot constitution and State government: ·Provz’dedQ The eenstimtion and government, so to be formed, shall he repuly 3 llean, and in conformity to the prlndples contained in thehe. articles, land, so far as it ban be consistent with the general inivrest of the contedeméy, sneh atlmiseion Shall be nllovved at an <·;1rlie:.period, and when there may be a lm number of tree inllnbitnnts ln the State than sixtythousand. `

WEST TERRITORI..tli t;Ol’1£RN.lfEN1{ ,' Aarrcrls VI - "1‘here shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude I in the said territory. othexgwise than in the pimishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly coavieted: Prozgidcd always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom _ _ labor or service is lawfully claimed insany one of the original » States, such Qugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid. · Bo it ordained by the authorm; ofo*re.said,_ That the resolutions of the 23d of Aprll,’1784, relative to the subject ot this ordinance,I- be, and the same . are hereby, repealed, and declared null and_void. · f - · -  . ' I Done by the United States; in Congress assembled. the 13th _ day of July, in the year ot our Lord 1787, and of their sovereignty and independence the tweltth.