WHEREAS, The people of the territory of Kansas, by their representatives in convention assembled, at Wyandotte, in said territory, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, did form to themselves a constitution and state government, republican inform, which was ratified and adopted by the people, at an election held for that purpose, on Tuesday, the fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the said convention has, in their name and behalf, asked the congress of the United States to admit the said territory into the union as a state, on an equal footing with the other states; therefore,

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled: