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Excerpt from The Right of the General Government to Lease Mineral Lands Within a State: Considered in a Report by Senator Howell, From the Common Public Lands; And the Sovereign Right of Michigan to the Mines and Minerals Within Her Borders, Discussed in a Report by Senator Littlejohn, From Judiciary Com;, Made to the Senate of Michigan, At
The act admitting us into the Union repeals all acts of Congress, contravening its provisions, and the right to revive and enforce an act applicable only to the territories of the United States, while they remain such, cannot be raised by implication, to be enforced after we become a state, so as to effect our sovereignty and jurisdiction. Such rights to operate, should have been as expressly reserved by Congress as the reservations and stipulations of treaties between sovereign and independent governments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
