Illinois, historical and statistical : comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and state ... . 52>24° Michigan, Northwest Territory, Jan. 26, 1837, 70,000* Texas, Annexed, ... - March 1, 1845, 143,000 268,780 Iowa, French Purchase, ... March 3, 1845, 78,819 56,025 Florida, Spain, .... - March 3, 1845, 64,000* 58,680 Wisconsin, Northwest Territory, March 3, 1847, 180,000* 56,040 California, Mexico, - Sept. 9, 1850, 158,360 Minnesota, Northwest Territory and France, - May 4, 1858, 120,000* Oregon, Ceded by France,
Illinois, historical and statistical : comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and state ... . 52>24° Michigan, Northwest Territory, Jan. 26, 1837, 70,000* Texas, Annexed, ... - March 1, 1845, 143,000 268,780 Iowa, French Purchase, ... March 3, 1845, 78,819 56,025 Florida, Spain, .... - March 3, 1845, 64,000* 58,680 Wisconsin, Northwest Territory, March 3, 1847, 180,000* 56,040 California, Mexico, - Sept. 9, 1850, 158,360 Minnesota, Northwest Territory and France, - May 4, 1858, 120,000* Oregon, Ceded by France, - Feb. 14, 1859, 50,000* 96,030 Kansas, Ceded by France and Texas, Jan. 29, 1861, 107,206 82,080 West Virginia, Virginia, .... - Dec. 31, 1862, 350,000 24,780 Nevada, Mexico, .... March 11, 1864, 40,000* 110,700 Nebraska, Ceded by France, - Feb. 9, 1867, 100, coo* 76,855 Colorado, France and Mexico, March 3, 1875,! 100,000* 103,925 As will be seen, up to 1850, with the exception of the compromise state of Mis-souri, the states were admitted in the order of first a slave-state and then a free-state.* Estimated. i Took effect Aug. 1, CHAPTER XX. First State-Election —Gov. Bond—First General Assem-bly—Officers—Laws—Election of United-States Sen-ators— Congressional Election—Cook vs. McLean-Removal of the Capital. THE first election for State-officers, and members of thegeneral assembly under the constitution of 1818, washeld on the third Thursday (17), and the two following days inSeptember. The mode of voting was by ballot, which wascontinued until 1829, when a return to the viva-voce methodwas determined upon. Shadrach Bond was elected the first governor of the State bya practically unanimous vote. He came to the Territory fromMaryland in 1794, having barely passed the age of twenty-one,and resided at first with his uncle, of the same name, on theAmerican Bottom, in what is now Monroe County. He wasraised a farmer, and so continued. He received only a comm
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