Volume 5
Public Law 24–LXXXVI
to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river.
Approved June 7, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That when the Indian title to all the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said lands shall be hereby ceded to the State of Missouri, and the western boundary of said State shall be then extended to the Missouri river, reserving to the United States the original right of soil in said lands, and of disposing of the same: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until the
Proviso.
President shall by proclamation, declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished; nor shall it take effect until the State of Missouri shall have assented to the provisions of this act.
Approved, .