...for annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845 (Stats, at Large, vol. 5, p. 797), stipulated that the territory properly included within and rightfully...into a new State, to be called the State of Texas. 4th. By joint resolution of December 29, 1845 (US Stats., vol. 9, p. 108), the State of Texas «;is...

...for annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845 {Stats, at Largo, vol. 5, p. 797), stipulated that the territory properly included within and rightfully...may be erected into a new State, to be called the Stale of Texas. 4th. By joint resolution of December 29, 1H45(US Stats., vol. 9, p. 108), the State...

...failed, a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses, was introduced, providing that "Congress doth consent that the territory properly...belonging to the Republic of Texas may be erected into a state to be called the State of Texas," on certain conditions. This passed the House, January 25, l845,...

...which affirmed 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." This resolution was amended by additions permitting four new States to be formed out of this territory...

...failed, a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses, was introduced, providing that "Congress doth consent that the territory properly...rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas may 172 be erected into a state to be called the State of Texas,'' on certain conditions. This passed the...

...(Republican, of Michigan), was read in the House and referred to the committee on foreign affairs: " That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the government of Hawaii, and commonly known as the Sandwich Islands, may be erected into a new State,...

...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,...

...declared its independence from Mexico. By a joint resolution passed March 1, 1845, Congress consented that "The territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas" might be created into a State to be admitted into the Union, one of the conditions of such consent...

...recognized the principle that Texas could not cede what it did not possess. All that the resolution says is "the territory properly included within and rightfully...into a new state to be called the state of Texas." The question now presented to the court is whether this portion of New Mexico was, in 1845, "territory...

...recognized the principle that Texas could not cede what it did not possess. All that the resolution says is "the territory properly included within and rightfully...into a new state to be called the state of Texas." The question now presented to the court is whether this portion of New Mexico was, in 1845, "territory...