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Sundry resolutions. Resolved, That the Congress of the United States is hereby requested, upon the application of Kansas for admission into the Union, to pass an act granting to the State forty-five hundred thousand acres of land to aid in the construction of railroads and other internal improvements.
     Resolved, That Congress be further requested to pass an act appropriating fifty thousand acres of land for the improvement of the Kansas River from its mouth to Fort Riley.
     Resolved, That congress be further requested to pass an act granting all swamp lands within the State for the benefit of common schools.
     Resolved, That Congress be further requested to pass an act appropriating five hundred thousand dollars, or in lieu thereof five hundred thousand acres of land, for the payment of the claims awarded to citizens of Kansas by the Claim Commissioners appointed by the Governor and Legislature of Kansas under an act of the Territorial Legislature passed 7th February, 1859.
     Resolved, That the Legislature shall make provision for the sale or disposal of the lands granted to the State in aid of internal improvements and for other purposes, subject to the same rights of preemption to the settlers thereon as are now allowed by law to settlers on the public lands.
     Resolved, That it is the desire of the people of Kansas to be admitted into the Union with this Constitution.
     Resolved, That Congress be further requested to assume the debt of this Territory.
     Done in Convention at Wyandotte, this 29th day of July, A.D. 1859.

JAMES M. WINCHELL,
President of the Kansas Constitutional Convention and Member from Osage County.

JOHN A. MARTIN, Secretary.

     Robt. Graham,          S.O. Thatcher,

     J.A. Middleton,          Edwin Stokes,

     John Taylor Burris,          John Ritchey (Ritchie),

     Wm. Hutchinson,          Benjamin S. Simpson,

     N.C. Blood,          James M. Arthur,

     John P. Greer,          Saml. E. Hoffman,

     W.P. Dutton,          James H. Signor,

     Wm. McCullough,          Robt. J. Porter,

     Jas. G. Blunt,          Luther R. Palmer,

     J.C. Burnett,          R.L. Williams,

     Wm. R. Griffith,          P.H. Townsend,

     Caleb May,          H.D. Preston,

     S.D. Houston,          Edmund G. Ross,

     Josiah Lamb,          James Hanway,

     John James Ingalls,          Allen Crocker,

     Saml. A. Kingman,          George H. Lillie.

     James Blood,                                        

     The following-named delegates to the Wyandotte convention did not sign the constitution:

     J.P. Slough,          P.S. Parks,

     C.B. McClellan,          E.M. Hubbard,

     J.W. Forman,          F. Brown,

     J. Stiarwalt,          Sam. Hipple,

     W.C. McDowell,          S.A. Stinson,

     A.D. McCune,          R.C. Foster,

     John Wright,          J.T. Barton,

     W. Perry,          B. Wrigley,

     E. Moore,          T.S. Wright.