United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 1
I. Resolution for the admission of the State of Mississippi into the Union.
Resolution for the admission of Mississippi into the Union.
Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 23.Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states,” the people of the said territory did, on the fifteenth day of August, 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 to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states 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 Mississippi, 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 10, 1817.