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Public Law 16–XIX
for the admission of the state of Maine into the Union.(a)(a)
Approved March 3, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the admission of the state of Maine into the Union.(a)(a)
The acts of Congress relating to the state of Maine, in addition to this act, are:
An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine, March 30, 1820, ch. 27.
An act apportioning the representatives in the seventeenth Congress to be elected in the state of Massachusetts and Maine, and for other purposes, April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
Whereas, by an act of the state of Massachusetts, passed on the nineteenth
Act of April 7, 1820, ch. 39.
The people of Maine, with the consent of the legislature of Massachusetts, have formed themselves into an independent state, &c.
day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act relating to the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into a separate and independent state,” the people of that part of Massachusetts heretofore known as the district of Maine, did, with the consent of the legislature of said state of Massachusetts, form themselves into an independent state, and did establish a constitution for the government of the same, agreeably to the provisions of said act—Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Maine admitted into the Union from 15th March, 1820.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That from and after the fifteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the state of Maine 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, .