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Extract from the Report Of TheCommittee Of Thirteen- May 8, 1850
. . . The views and recommendations contained in this report may be recapitulated in a few words: I. The admission of any new State or States formed out of Texas to be postponed until they shall hereafter present themselves to be received into the Union, when it will be the duty of Congress fairly and faithfully to execute the compact with Texas by admitting such new State or States; 2. The admission forthwith of California into the Union, with the boundaries which she has proposed; 3. The establishment of territorial governments, without the Wilmot proviso, for New Mexico and Utah, embracing all the territory recently acquired by the United States from Mexico not contained in the boundaries of California; 4. The combination of these two last mentioned measures in the same bill; 5. The establishment of the western and northern boundary of Texas, and the exclusion from her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with the grant to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent; and the sec tion for that purpose to be incorporated in the bill admitting California and establishing territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico; 6. More effectual enactments of law to secure the prompt delivery of persons bound to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, who escape into another State; and, 7. Abstaining from abolishing slavery; but, under a heavy penalty, prohibiting the slave trade in the District of Columbia. |
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