Social Cleavages in Texas: A Study of the Proposed Division of the StateColumbia university, 1925 - 193 Seiten |
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31st Congress 34th Legislature 40th Congress action admission annexation April Austin Republican Beaman bill boundary line Brazos river Census cent citizens cleavage Colorado river committee Congressional Globe consideration constitution Convention Journal counties Davis December declaration Degener delegates dismemberment divided division of Texas division question divisionists East Texas eastern election favor of division favored division Flanagan foreign-born formed Galveston Gazette Gilbert G Governor Hamilton House of Representatives illiteracy immigration interests Jacinto January January 14 January 22 Jefferson joint resolution laws legislative majority measure ment Mexicans Mexico Newcomb North Texas opposed organization plan of division political portion present President proposed providing Province question of division re-district Reconstruction Refused to Adjourn Republic of Texas respect result sections Senate Journal sentiment slave slavery South Texas southern statehood thence thirty-second parallel tion Trinity river Union United vention vote Washington West Texas Western Texas Whereas writer Zeitung
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Seite 113 - An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said Boundaries, and of all her Claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial Government for New Mexico.
Seite 417 - That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri Territory included within the boundaries hereinafter designated, be, and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves a constitution and State government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said State, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatsoever.
Seite 410 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirtysix degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Seite 111 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of 36° 30...
Seite 408 - IV. The remainder of the annexed territory, to be held and disposed of by the United States as one of their Territories, to be called 'the Southwest Territory.
Seite 410 - That if the President of the United States shall, in his judgment and discretion, deem it most advisable, instead of proceeding to submit the foregoing resolution to the Republic of Texas, as an overture on the part of the United States, for admission, to negotiate with that republic ; then...
Seite 111 - 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 were approved by the President of the United States on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five: and whereas the President of the United States has submitted to Texas the first and second sections of the said resolution...
Seite 410 - That a State, to be formed out of the present Republic of Texas, with suitable extent and boundaries, and with two representatives in Congress, until the next apportionment of representation, shall be admitted into the Union, by virtue of this act, on an equal footing with the existing States, as soon as the terms and conditions of such admission, and the cession of the remaining Texan territory to the United States shall be agreed upon...
Seite 412 - Southern boundaries thereof on the coast; and thence/ by a line -running in a northwesterly direction to the extreme boundary thereof, so as to divide the same as...
Seite 112 - Now, in order to manifest the assent of the people of this republic, as required in the above recited portions of the said resolutions, we, the deputies of the people of Texas, in convention assembled, in their name, and by their authority, do ordain and declare, that we assent to and accept the proposals, conditions, and guarantees contained in the first and second sections...