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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cir. 50. 1848. 233 for a limited time, an additional military force, and for other purposes," ”ml¤tiv¤¤," as approved eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall l"  be considered as extending to the brothers and sisters of those persons ian, ci., a, rg; whose services, under that act, may have entitled them to the land '?**° l'°*’°“¥“}*°d . . . . . · time an additiontherem provided : the order or priority of right, however, shall remain ,] military force, as declared in that act; and those failing, the right shall accrue, ate. fourthly, to the brother or sister, or in equal proportions to the brothers and sisters of the deceased, as the case may be. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the benefits of the said act Benefits ofsaid of eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall not be   b';_°‘ if construed as forfeited by the privates and non-commissioned officers vafgg who nga, who have been, or may be, promoted to the grade of commissioned been P*°m°*€d officer during their service in Mexico, and who shall have subsequently fulfilled the condition of their engagements: Provided, Such promotion Proviso. shall have been made subsequent to the original organization of the company, corps, or regiment to which such privates and non-commissioned officers may have belonged. Armtovso, May 27, 1848. Can. L.- An Actfoa- the Admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union. May 29, 1848. Wnsnsss the people of the Territory of Wisconsin did, on the first 18*-'· ch- 53· day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, by a convention of delegates, called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State government, which said constitution is republican, and said convention having asked the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the original States : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Dinited States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of $*9*** °f Wis Wisconsin be, and is hereby, admitted to be one of the United States of America, and is hereby admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever, with the bounda- Boundaries. ries prescribed by the act of Congress, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act to enable the people of Wis- 1816,eh. 89. cousin Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union." Sec. 2. And be it jizrtlrer enacted, That the assent of Congress is Asscntcf Conhereby given to the first, second, fourth, and fifth resolutions adopted §;ff_j,ng"'f;‘s0,;‘f by said convention, and appended to said constitution; and the acts tions of the canof Congress referred to in the said resolutions are hereby amended, so g°"‘i°“h *:5 Bi:}" that the lands granted by the provisions of the several acts referred to yoifniing :,,,,,,,3: in the said first and fourth resolutions, and the proceeds of said lands, wtivn, and cerand the five per centum of the net proceeds of the public lands therein mentioned, shall be held and disposed of by said State, in the manner ferred to amendaud for the purposes recommended by said convention; and so that, °d· also, the lands reserved to the United States by the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to grant a quantity of land to aid in the improve- 18lG, eh. 170. ment of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and to connect the same by a canal in the Territory of Wisconsin ; " and, also, the even numbered sections reserved by the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to grant 1838, ch. H4. a quantity of land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock River," shall be offered for sale at the same minimum price, and subject to the same rights of preemption, as other public _ lands of the United States; Provided, however, That no person shall P’°"'“P “ ‘° - .. . . . preemption be entitled to a preemption by reason of the settlement and cultivation ,;gmS_ of any quarter section or other subdivision of said even numbered Von IX. Pc1x.—30