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...lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to become a charge upon the United States. " Third, New States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to the said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State,...

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...for the erection of four additional states from its territory, and in these words — "New states, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said...under the provisions of the Federal constitution." The opposition to the annexation of Texas was, at the time, very great in the North. Massachusetts,...

...resolution of the 1st March, 1845, for the admission of Texas. That clause reads in these •words : " New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four...hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of tbe territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution....

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