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Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas. . 1855 83 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0070 and id is 1 raw text is: JOINT RESOLUTIONS CHAPTER 1. Be -it IReaolved by the Leyi lature of the St ate of '2eaa8: ''hat his Excellency, the Governor, be authorized and i'e. (1uosted to issue his Proclamation and order for an election to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Joseph C.lIar- rison, Representative from the counties of Cherokee and Ange- lina, to those counties, and that lie orddr said election to be hol- don on Thursday. the 12th da , of December next, and that tbe Chief Justices of said counties be authorized to break the poll and compare the vote upon the next day after said election.-. That tie Chief Justice of Angelina, or Commissioners of Ange- lina county, as provided by law, shall issue his certificato of election to the elect) as soon as the facts are ascertained, that he may proceed to the city of Austin immediately ; provided that five days previous notice shall be given of said election. And this resolution take effect from and after its passage, Apprvcd 28th November, 1855. Is!, Re8olved by the Legislatura of the State f Texa, That this State regards the act of Congress passdd in 1850, auiitting Calitbrnia into the Union, fixing the boundary of Texas, estab- lishing territorial governments in Utah adid ew Mexico, coin- posing a part of what is commonly egildh the compronlise measures of 1850, as questions fully settled, so far as they have relation to the question of slavery, and that Texas is opposed to aly change in thoso laws effecting (affecting) their principles on the great questions which have utnlhappily divided the Northern and Southorn States of the Union.

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