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Disputed Boundaries

Wisconsin being a part of the "Territory of the United States
north=west of the Ohio River" claims, and, indeed, Congress has
by direct action confirmed to her* all the rights and
privileges secured by the Ordinance of Congress of July 13th 1787
one of which is "that Congress shall have authority to form
one or two states in that part of said territory which lies
north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or
extreme of Lake Michigan: thereby fixing unalterably

*In the act establishing the Territory of Wisconsin, section twelve; where
it is expressly declared "the inhabitants of the said Territory shall
be entitled to enjoy, all and singular the rights and advantages
granted and secured to the people of the Territory of the United
States north=west of the Ohio river by the articles of the compact
contained in the ordinance for the government of the said
Territory passed on the thirteenth day of July one thousand seven
hundred and eighty seven"