108 TWENTY-NTNTH CONGRESS Sess. I. Ras. 1, 2. 1845-46. RESOLUTION S. Dw- 29, NW6- [No. 1.] -Joint Resolution for the Admission of the State af Texas into the Umm, P*'°*““b1°· Wnnnnas the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved March the first, eighteen hundred and forty-five, did consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to, the Republic of Texas, might 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 might be admitted as one of the States of the Union; which consent of Congress was given upon certain conditions specified in. the first and second sections of said joint resolution; and whereas the people of the said Republic of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, did adopt a constitution, and erect a new State with a republican dorm of government, and, in the name of the people of Texas, and by_ their authority, did ordain and declare that they assented to and accepted the proposals, conditions, and guaranties contained in said first and second sections of said resolution: and whereas the said constitution, with the proper evidence of its adgption by the people of the Republic of Texas, has been transmitted to the President of the United States and laid before Congress, in conformity to the provisions of said joint resolution: Therefore — Texas admitted Resolved by the Senate and House if Representatives of the l“t° ‘h° U“l°“· United States of America ini Congress assembled, That the State of Texas shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, ar the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever. To be entitled Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That until the representatives 3,:: '°P“·>¤¤¤*· in Congress shall be apportioned according to an actual enumeration ' of the inhabitants of the United States, the State of Texas shall be entitled to choose two representatives. Approved, December 29, 1845. ·l¤¤· 7, IMG- [No. 2.]—J0int Resalulion rehztive to the Printing and Distributwn of the annual Estimates. Estimates of Resolved by the Senate and House of Re resentatives n the United §’;*’,§;’,—€f;‘,§{°“’ ‘° States of America at congress assembled,PThat at simiijim as duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the estimates of appropriations which he is by law required to prepare and submit to Congress to be printed, and copies of the same to be delivered to the clerk of the House of Representatives, in time for distribution at the commencement of each session; and that the clerk distribute the said estimates in the manner in which documents printed by Congress are directed to be distributed. Arpnovnn, January 7, [846.
