Excerpt from California and New Mexico: Speech of Mr. Wm; B. Preston, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1849, on the Formation of a New State Out of the Territories of California and New Mexico Sec 3. Find be it further enacted, That, on the said first day of October, 1849, the said new State having been thus formed by the name and style of the State of California, and with the consent of the people thereof, shall be received and admitted into the Union as a new and entire member of the United States of America. 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.