Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-01-10

received and admitted into this Union on the first
day of June, 1892, more Than one year alter tlle
passage of The act and also upon The act, ap-
nroved February lS, 1871, enaciing and declaring
that, on The llh day Of March, 1884, the State OF
Vermont shall be received and admitted INTO ms
Union. less than one month after the passage OF
The act (Sce Laws of Congress, vol. :, pages
1911, 2,3.)
The acts referred 10 are very short and simple;
and it might perhaps be we'll TO publish them IN
the Enquirer for The information OF your readers
II is worthy OF remark, that all The States except
Vermont, had ratified the Constitution, had thus
formed 'this Union" and had thereby Superseded
the previously existing articles Of confederation.
Vermont was out VI The Union. II is believed,
that The Judicial system ofthe u States adopted
under The Constitution, did not embrace Vermont
And the act of Congress for taking the census or
enumeration OF the inhabitants NJ The United
States, approved March |, 1890 did not embrace
the inhabitants OF Vermont. In This condition,
Vermont applied for admission as mew STATE
and was SO admitted by the act Of February IL,
1890, and then, by an act approved March =
1871, effect was given TO the laws OF the United
States within the State OF Vermont, by extending
the Judicial system 10 the same, providing Tor TAX
ing the census, and for The application and en-
forcement Of The act providing for the collection
of duties
Below give you copy of The bill introduced
by Mr. Dromsoolc. Yours, respectfully.
A ELL declaring the consent Of Congress that
ac,c Stale DC formed 1ritiiH Re Jurisdiction 81
Tie Republic Of Teas, and admitted into this
Union.
Be ii cnacted by the .Stnats and House Of Repre-
scniatircs of The Lnitrd Stats Of america III Com
sress assembled, ard IL is hereby cRacted ami de-
tiaycd That the Congress doth consent that
new State may be erected within the jurisdic-
lion Of the Republic OF Texas, adjoining The
States of Louisiana and Arkansas, and bounded
also by the Gulf OF Mexico, with a Republican
form of Government, 10 be adopted by the inha-
bilants of said Republic, assembled, by deputies,
in Convention, with the consent Of the existing
Government in order that the said new State may
be admitted into this Union.
and be II further enacted and declared, That
the foregoing consent Of the Congress is given
upon The following conditions, TO wit: That the
new State shall be formed, and its Government
adopted, prior 10 the fourth day Of July in the
present year; and that The boundaries OF the said
new State conforming TO the outlines before stat
ed, and containing an area not exceeding --
thousand square miles, shall be defined by the
Convention Of deputies, and inserted in the Con-
slluiiun or form of Government; and that the
assent Of the State shall also be inserted 10 such
uOunudiiSS VI 'iic ieIildiHiiS teIIitoiN, poPclIl
pertaining TO Texas, and 10 be claimed and held
by said new State on superseding The present
Government, as may lie settled aud defined by
the Government Of the United States by negotia-
ton and treaty, or otherwise
An9 be IL further enacted anil Gecl0ted, That
on the said fourth day Of July in the present
year. the said new State, having been thus form
ed and defined, by The name and style of the State
of Texas shall bc received and admitted into this
Union, as a new and entire member of the U.
States of America