The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947 Page: 268
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2. That this state was to be admitted with the following
conditions and guarantees:
(1) Boundary disputes with other powers to be in the hands
of the United States. Consent of the people of Texas should
be transmitted to the President to be laid before Congress before
January 1, 1846.
(2) Texas should surrender all public means of defense and
should keep public funds, debts, dues, and all liabilities, which
were in no event to become a charge upon the government of
the United States.
(3) New states, not exceeding four in number, might be
formed out of Texas with the consent of the state. Those states
south of the Missouri Compromise line should be admitted with
or without slavery as the people of each state asking admission
might desire. Slavery should be prohibited in those states north
of the line of 36030'.
3. Should the President deem it more advisable to enter
into negotiations with Texas, then it was resolved that the state
formed out of this territory should have two representatives
until the time of the next congressional apportionment and
should be admitted as a state by virtue of this act as soon as the
terms and conditions might be agreed upon. An appropriation
of $100,000 was made to pay the expenses of missions or negotia-
tions to agree upon the cession or admission by articles or a
treaty.c1
When the annexation resolution had passed the Congress of
the United States, it remained for Texas to accept the proposal,
to prepare the new state constitution, and to be accepted into
the Union. Texas accepted the resolution in July, 1845; the
Texas constitution was accepted by Congress in December,
1845; and in February, 1846, the final act of annexation was
completed when Texas exchanged the Lone Star flag for the
flag of the United States."'
"6Ibid., 362-363.
67For additional information on the annexation of Texas see E. C.
Barker, "The Annexation of Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
L (July, 1946); Llerena Friend (ed.), "Contemporary Newspaper Ac-
counts of the Annexation of Texas," ibid., XLIX (October, 1945), 267-281;
and Hampson Gary, "General J. Pinckney Henderson," ibid., XLIX, 282-285.268
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