West Viriginia General Assembly Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Regular Session, Held December Second, 1861, at the City of Wheeling
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08670 Author/Creator: West Viriginia General Assembly Place Written: Wheeling, West Virginia Type: Book Date: 1862 Pagination: 1 v. : 111 p. ; 21.8 x 15 cm. Order a Copy
Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office. These acts were passed to set up West Virginia as a state. Pages 3-91 contain the various acts with descriptive summaries printed in smaller font in the margin next to the pertinent text. Each act is marked as a chapter and the book contains 89 of them with numbered sections describing the various parts of each act. Pages 93-98 contain 13 numbered joint resolutions. Pages 99-101 consist of a table for the various times and places of the circuit courts. Pages 103-111 contain an index. Original covers.
These acts were passed after West Viriginia had set up a separate state government on 1 July 1861. The state constitution was not ratified until April 1862. In May 1862 the state legislature of the reorganized government approved the formation of the new state. An application for admission to the Union was made to Congress, and on 31 December 1862 an enabling act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln admitting West Virginia, on the condition that a provision for the gradual abolition of slavery be inserted in the Constitution. The Convention was reconvened on 12 February 1863, and the demand was met. The revised constitution was adopted on 26 March 1863, and on 20 April 1863 President Lincoln issued a proclamation admitting the state at the end of sixty days, 20 June 1863.
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