1846 HENRY H. SIBLEY DELEGATE FROM WISCONSIN Governor Minnesota

Description: [ebay 158] THIRTIETH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION. Report No. 10. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 10 HENRY H. SIBLEY, DELEGATE FROM WISCONSIN TER- RITORY. JANUARY 2, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. RICHARD W. THOMPSON, from the Committee of Elections, made the following REPORT: The Committee of Elections, to whom was referred the question of the right of Henry H. Sibley to a seat in the House of Represen- tatives, as a delegate from the Territory of Wisconsin, submit the following report: due homp The act providing for the original organization of the Territory of Wisconsin was passed on the 20th April, 1836, and under this organization the Territory extended beyond the Mississippi river, and included the present State of Iowa. The Territory of Iowa was formed by an act passed June 12, 1838, out of all that part of the Territory of Wisconsin west of the Mississippi river. By an act passed August 6, 1846, the people of the Territory of Wisconsin were authorized to form a constitution and State gov- ernment, with a view to admission into the Union. This act fixed the following boundaries for the State of Wisconsin, to wit: "Be- ginning at the northeast corner of the State of Illinois, that is to say, at a point in the centre of Lake Michigan where the line of forty-two degrees and thirty minutes of north latitude crosses the same; thence, running with the boundary line of the State of Mich- igan, through Lake Michigan, Green Bay, to the mouth of the Me- nomonie river; thence thence up the channel of said river to the Brulé river; thence along the southern shore of Lake Brulé, in a direct line to the centre of the channel between Middle and South islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head 2 Rep. No. 10. waters of the Montreal river, as marked upon the survey made by Captain Cramm; thence down the main channel of the Montreal river to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the centre of Lake Superior to the mouth of the St. Louis river; thence up the main channel of said river to the first rapids in the same above the Indian village, according to Nicollet's map; thence due south to the main branch of the river St. Croix; thence down the main channel of said river to the Mississippi; thence down the centre of the main channel of that river to the northwest corner of the State of Illinois; thence due east with the northern boundary of the State of Illinois to the place of beginning, as established by 'An act to enable the people of the Illinois 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,' approved April eighteen, eighteen hundred and eighteen." Pursuant to the provisions of the aforesaid act of August 6, 1846, the people of Wisconsin formed a State constitution, in the first article of which provision was made for a change of boundary, with the consent of Congress. This consent was given by the act of March 3, 1847, which fixed the boundary as follows, to wit: "Leaving the boundary line prescribed in the act of Congress en- titled 'An act to enable the people of Wisconsin Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union,' at the first rapids in the river St. Louis; thence in a direct line southwardly to a point fifteen miles east of the most easterly point in Lake St. Croix; thence due south to the main channel of the Mississippi river or Lake Pepin; thence down the said main channel, as prescribed in said act." The Territory of Wisconsin remained with these boundaries, and under the organization provided in the act of April 20, 1836, until the passage of the act of May 29, 1848, entitled "An act for the admission of Wisconsin into the Union." This act changed the boundary as consented to by Congress in the act of March 3, 1847, and admitted the State of Wisconsin into the Union, with the boundaries prescribed by the act of August 6, 1846. Thus the northern boundary of the State is the St. Croix river. By the adoption by Congress of the St. Croix river as the boun- dary, a portion of the inhabitants who had enjoyed the advantages of the Territorial government of Wisconsin were left out of the State of Wisconsin. This number is represented as about 4,000, embraced within the limits of a judicial circuit and a complete county organization. They had participated in the election of a delegate to Congress, under the act organizing the Territory, and were, at the passage of the act of May 29, 1848, represented in Con- gress by the Hon. John H. Tweedy, who was, at that time, the delegate from the whole Territory. This gentleman to remove any doubts that might exist as to the tenure of his office-resigned his seat as delegate, on September 18, 1848. On the 9th day of June, 1848, the regularly elected representatives from the State of Wisconsin took their seats as members of the House of Represen- tatives. It will be seen, therefore, that the inhabitants who reside

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