The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2 Page: 1,303

                                
Ordinance.

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AN ORDINANCE.
Whereas, the Congress of the United States of America has passed resolutions
providing for the annexation of Texas to that Union, which
resolutions wrere approved by the President of the United States on the
first dav of _March, 184:5: And whereas, the President of the United
States has submitted to Texas the first and second sections of the said
resolutions, as the basis upon which Texas may be admitted as one of
the States of said Union: And whereas, the existing government of the
Republic of Texas has assented to.the proposals thus made, the terms
and conditions of which are as follow:"Resolved
by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent
that the territory properly included within and rightly belonging to the
Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State
of Texas, with a Republican form of Government, to be adopted by the
people of said Republic, by deputies in Convention assembled, with the
consent of the existing Government, in order that the same may be admitted
as one of the States of this Union.
"2. And be it further Resolved, That the foregoing consent of Congress
is given upon the following conditions, and with the following
guarantees, to wit.
"First, Said State to be formed subject to the adjustment by this
Government of all questions of boundary that may arise with other Governments.
and the Constitution thereof. with the proper evidence of its
adoption, by the people of said Republic of Texas, shall be transmitted
to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress for its
final action, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and forty six.
"Second, Said State when admitted into the Union, after ceding to
the United States all public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports and
harbors, navy and navy-yards, docks, magazines, arms, armaments and
all other property and means pertaining to the public defence belonging
to the said Republic of Texas; shall retain all the public funds, debts,
taxes, and dues of every kind which may belong to or be due and owing
said Republic; and shall also retain all the vacant and nnappropriated
lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of debts and
liabilities of said-Republic of Texas, and the residue of said debts and
liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct: but in no event are
said debts and liabilities to become a charge upon the Government of the
United States.
'Third. New States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number,
in addition to said State of Texas, and having a sufficient population,
may hereafter. by the consent of said State, be formed, out of the
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