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The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
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Michigan's Legislative Council adjourned on the 7th ultimo after a seven-day session, passing laws for a census east and west of Lake Michigan to prepare for a state constitution convention and congressional elections. They extended laws westward, organized counties, and adopted resolutions asserting rights to state government upon reaching 60,000 population and claiming boundaries from the 1787 ordinance, calling on Virginia and the U.S. to observe it.
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The Legislative council of the territory of Michigan adjourned on the 7th ultimo, after a brief session of seven days. They passed a law to provide for taking the census of the territory east and west of Lake Michigan, preparatory to the call of a convention to form a state constitution, and the election of a representative and senators to the Congress of the United States. The census is to be completed by the second Monday of November, and the returns to be immediately made after the completion of the enumeration of the inhabitants. Acts so extending the laws of Michigan to the country west of the Mississippi, and organizing counties in that country, as well as a new county east of the river, was also unanimously adopted resolutions declaratory of the right of the people of Michigan to the protection and privileges of a permanent state government, as soon as they ascertain that they have a population of sixty thousand souls—declaratory of their just and lawful claim to the boundaries established in the ordinance of 1787 and the acts of Congress passed in pursuance of that ordinance, and calling upon the state of Virginia to require from the government of the United States a faithful observance of the provisions contained in the ordinance and the act ceding to the Union the territory north west of the river Ohio. So it seems that Michigan has determined to become a state. Success to her.
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Michigan Territory
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7th Ultimo
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passed laws for census, extended laws westward, organized counties, adopted resolutions for statehood and boundary claims
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Legislative council adjourned after seven-day session; passed census law for areas east and west of Lake Michigan to prepare for state constitution convention and congressional elections; census due by second Monday of November; extended Michigan laws to west of Mississippi, organized counties there and a new one east of the river; unanimously adopted resolutions declaring right to state government at 60,000 population, claiming 1787 ordinance boundaries, and urging Virginia to enforce U.S. observance of ceding act for northwest territory