through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government: Provided, The constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interests of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ARTICLE VI. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the resolutions of the 23d of April, 1784, relative to the subject of this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and declared null and void. Done by the United States, in Congress assembled, the 13th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of their sovereignty and independence the 12th. CHARLES THOMSON, Secy. SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE FIRST TO THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, INCLUSIVE. Under Article I, section 3, clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States, relating to the classification of Senators in the First and succeeding Congresses, it was provided that, "Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year." The classification of the Senators of the First Congress was made in accordance with this provision by lot. The table beginning on the following page shows the classes to which the Senators of the First Congress, and from States subsequently admitted into the Union, were severally assigned, and the succession in each State to the close of the Fifty-fourth Congress. 421 TABLE OF SENATORS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE FIRST TO THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, INCLUSIVE. ALABAMA. CLASS 2. 45th to 53d 54th CLASS 3. do .do Nov. 24, 1841 William R. King July 1, 1848 ..do Mar. 4, 1849 Mar. 3, 1855 Jan. 14, 1853 Dec. 12, 1853 .do.. do Dec. 12, 1853 Mar. 3, 1861 Mar. 4, 1879 Mar. 3, 1885 Do ...do.... Luke Pryor Jan. 7, 1880 Nov. 24, 1880 Mar. 4, 1837 Mar. 3, 1843 Appointed Associate Justice United States Resigned in 1841. Mar. 3, 1849 Resigned in 1848. By governor, to fill vacancy. By governor, to fill vacancy. State unrepresented in this class from June 25, 1868 Mar. 3, 1879 By legislature, to fill vacancy in term be ginning Mar. 4, 1867. Died Dec. 31, 1879. By governor, to fill vacancy. June 22, 1868 Mar. 3, 1871 By legislature, to fill vacancy in the term beginning Mar. 4, 1865. Mar. 4, 1871 Mar. 3, 1877 |