WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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I have to ask, therefore, that the Honorable Congress, will take such action upon the subject as shall be just and proper, and as shall be satisfactory to the party aggrieved. Sam Houston. 1 Congrcssional Papers, Sixth Congress; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 119, Texas State Library. 2 For details concerning this matter see Garrison (ed.), Diplomatic Co1·- respondence of the Republic of Texas, III, 1368-1371. See To M. Alphonse de Saligny, June 8, 1842.
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AN ELECTION PROCLAMATION, JULY 18, 1842 1
PROCLAMATION BY the President of the Republic of Texas: Whereas, the term for which the several members, composing the Representative branch of the sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas were elected, will expire on the fifth day of September next; And Whereas, the term for which the several members in the Senatorial branch of the said Congress, from the District of Bexar, the District of San Augustine, the District composed of the counties of Jefferson and Jasper, and the district composed of the counties of Harris, Liberty and Galveston were elected will also expire on the said fifth day of September next,- Therefore, be it known, that I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, do hereby, in the name, and by the authority of said Republic, order and direct, that an election for Repre- sentatives to the Seventh Congress of said Republic, and for Senators to fill the vacancies aforesaid, in the said Senatorial branch of the Congress, be held in the several counties of the Republic, and districts aforementioned, on the first Monday (the fifth day) of September next ensuing. And it is further ordered that the Chief Justices of the said several counties give legal notice of said election, and have the same conducted in all re- spects, in accordance with the Constitution and the law regulating elections; that proper certificates be given to the Representatives and Senators elect, and that due returns be made according to law. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Great Seal of the Re- public to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the City
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