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Twenty-Ninth Congress:
Session 1 -- Resolutions
[No. 1.] Joint Resolution for the Admission of the State of Texas into the Union
Whereas
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 form 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 adoption 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--
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Texas shall
be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of
America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States in all respects whatever.
Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That until the representatives 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.
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