United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 1
I. Resolution for admitting the state of Indiana into the Union.
Indiana admitted into the union as a state.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.Whereas in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of that state into the union,” the people of the said territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of June, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity with the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and state in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Indiana shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.
Approved, December 11, 1816.