WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
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of said Republic, order and direct, that an election for Repre- sentatives to the eighth Congress of said Republic, and for Sena- tors, as aforesaid, in the said Senatorial branch of the said Con- gress, and also for Major General of Militia, be held in the several counties in the Republic, and Districts aforementioned on the first Monday (the fourth day) of September next ensuing. And it is further ordered that the Chief Justices of the said sev- eral counties give legal notice of said election, and have the same conducted, in all respects, 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, to the Department of State. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the Republic to be affixed. Done at Washington, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and of the Independence of the Republic the eighth. By the President Sam Houston. Anson Jones, Secretary of State. 1 P,·oclamations of the P,·esiclents, R~rmblic of Texas; also Documents 1111der the Great Seal of the Republic, Reco,·d Book, No. 37, pp. 73-74, Texas State Library. THE PROCLAMATION OF AN ARMISTICE WITH MEXICOt BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, an official communication has been received at the Department of State, from Her Britanic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires near this Government, founded upon a dispatch he had received from Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in Mexico, an- nouncing to this Government the fact that the President of Mex- ico would forthwith 01'.der a cessation of hostilities, on his part, and the establishment of an armistice between Mexico and Texas, and requested that the President of Texas would send similar orders to the different officers, commanding the Texian forces: And WHEREAS, the President of Texas has felt justified from the dispositions evinced by this act of the President of Mexico, and the nature of those dispositions, in adopting the proposed measure, and ordering the cessation of hostilities on the part of Texas. '
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