...Whereas, the Congress of the United States, by a "joiut resolution." approved March the 1st, 1845, dill consent that the territory properly included within...and rightfully belonging to the republic of Texas might he erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government,...

...UNITED STATES has " consented," by a vote of 27 to 25, that " the territory included within, and rightly belonging to, the republic of Texas, may be erected...into a new state, to be called the State of Texas." This startling fact immediately preceded the inauguration of the new President, Mr. Polk, whose elaborate...

...hath proposed the following terras, guaranties, and conditions on which the people and territory of the Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, and admitted as one of the States of the American Union, to wit: [Here follow the resolutions of the...

...That Congress doth consent that the Territory properly included Avithin and rightfully belonging 1o the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State to be called the Slate of Texas, with a republican Turin of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic,...

...of a joint resolution by Congress, declaring its consent that " the territory properly included in, and rightfully belonging to the republic of Texas, may be erected into a new'State, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union." This consent...

...House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled — That Congress both consent, that the territory properly included within,...rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be created into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a Republican form of government, to...

...of a joint resolution by Congress, declaring its consent that " the territory properly included in, and rightfully belonging to the republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union." This consent is declared...

...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 form of government, and, in the name...

...-separation.' The first clause of the joint resolutions gave the consent of Congress to the annexation of " the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to, the Republic of Texas;" and in the second section it was provided, that " all questions of boundary that might arise with other...

...confer the same right. By the resolution for annexation, the United States acquired jurisdiction over the territory " properly included within, and rightfully belonging to, the republic of Texas." The words used cannot be so analyzed or synthetized as to force within their meaning one inch of territory...