Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16)

by United States. Congress

Tuesday, November, 24.

Mississippi Territory.

An engrossed bill to enable the people 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, was read the third time; and, on the question that the same do pass, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 63, nays 39.