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 [House Bill, No. 41.] 
 
 HOUSE. — Aug. 2G, 1862. Read first and second times, and 
 referred to Committee on Territories. Sept. 13, 1862. Reported 
 back, placed on calendar and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Russell.] 
 
 j± BILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act relating to Kansas. 
 
 Whereas, The Northern States of the late Union have 
 long endeavored, by fraud and violence, to appropriate to 
 their 'exclusive advantage, the Territories which belonged to 
 the States in common, and particularly the Territory of 
 Kansas, and in pursuance of that design, have recognized in 
 Kansas a pretended State Government, which was set up in 
 plain violation of law and right, and have admitted the same 
 into their Union : 
 
 And whereas, Kansas equitably belongs to the Confederate 
 States, and cannot, without manifest danger to them and 
 especially to the State of Missouri, be suffered to remain in 
 the possession of an unfriendly power. 
 
1 The Congress of the Confederate States do enacts That, 
 
 2 the President is authorized to take and hold possession 
 
 3 of Kansas as a Territory of the Confederate States, and 
 
 4 to establish therein a Territorial Government, whenever 
 
 5 he shall deem it expedient, applying for that purpose 
 
 6 the provisions of the Act establishing the government of 
 
 7 Arizona, so far as the same may be applicable, and 
 
 8 substituting places in Kansas for places in Arizona, as 
 
 9 he may deem necessary. 
 
 
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