Also appears under the title: Senate documents (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate); no. 50. Report made by the Joint Committee, which had been referred as the Governor's address as relates to the resolutions of Rhode Island concerning the annexation of Texas to the Union and petitions from citizens desiring the Massachusetts legislature to protests against the annexation. Voices opposition to the annexation on constitutional grounds. Please note that most of the pages of this document are uncut.

Excerpt from Report on the Annexation of Texas to the United States, 1838 The Joint Committee to whom was referred "so much of the Governor's address as relates to the resolutions of Rhode Island concerning the annexation of Texas to the Union" and to whom were also referred the petition of Asa Stoughton and others, legal voters of the town of Gill, and sundry other petitions of many thousand citizens of this Commonwealth, praying the Legislature "to protest without delay against the annexation of Texas to this Union" have attended to the duty assigned them, and beg leave respectfully to Report: The Committee were impressed in the commencement of their duties with the grave and deep importance of the subject committed to them, and this impression has increased at every step of their progress in its investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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