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An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories,Pub. L.16–22, 3 Stat.545, enacted March 6, 1820
An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories,Pub. L.16–22, 3 Stat.545, enacted March 6, 1820