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President JONES, in addition to convenlng Congress, has, also, called Convention of the People of Texas, to be held on the 4th cf July Auspicious day for the dolngs oi the people, in all that affects their liberties The following is his Proclamation;

 By the President Of Me Republic of Teras.

 A PROCLAMATION.

 WHEREAS the people of Texas have evinced decided wish that prompt and definite action should be had upon the proposition for Annexation, recently submitted by the Government of the United States to this Government, and that Convention should be assembled for this purpose; and Whereas it is competent for the people alone to decide finally upon the proposition for Annexation, and 'sby deputies in Conven- vention assembled,'a to adopt Constitu- ton with view to the admission of Texas as one of the States of the American States; and

 Whereas no authority is given by the Consti- tuition of this Republic, to any branch oi the Government, to call a Convention and to change the organic law-this being a right reserved to the people themselves, and which they alone can properly exer- else:

 THEREFORE, be il known, that I, ANSON JONES, President of the Republic of Texas, desirous of giving direction and effect to the public will, already so fully expressed, do RECOMMEND to the citizens of Texas, that an election for "Deputles" to a Convention be held Ill the different counties of the Republic on WEDNESDAY, the fourth day of June next upon the following basis, viz: Each county in the Republic to elect one Deputy, ire spectlVe of the number of voters 1t contained at the last annual elections Each county voting at that time three hundred, and less than nine hundred, to elect three Deputies and each county voting at that time nine hundred and upwards, to elect four Deputies which basis will give to the county of Aus tn, two; Bastrop, one; BeXar, two; Brazoria two; Bfazos, one; Bowie, one; Colorado, one Fayette, two, Fannin, two; Fort Bend, one Gollad, one; Galveston, two; Gonzales, one Harris, three; Harrison, three; Houston, two Jackson, one; Jasper, one; Jefferson, one Lamar, two; Liberty, two; Matagorda, one Montgomery, four; Milan, one; Nacogdoch- es, three; Red River, three; Robertson, two Rusk, one; Refugio, one; Sabine, one; Sar Augustine, two; Shelby two; San Patricio, one Travis, one; Victoria, one; and Washington three deputies; and that the said Deputies SC elected do assemble in Convention at the city of Austin, on the "Fourth of July'' next, fol the purpose of considering the pro position fol the annexation of Texas to the United States and any other proposition which may be made concerning the nationality of the Republic and should they deem it expedent and proper to adopt, provisionally, Constitution to bt submitted to the people for their ratification with view to the admission of Texas, as ; State, into the American Union, in accordance with the terms of the proposition for Annex. ation already submitted to this Government by that of the United States. And the Chic Justices of the respective counties aforesaid will give due notice of the said elections appoint a presiding officer in the several pre- cincts, who will appoint the judges and clerks of said elections, and have the same conducted according to the Constitution ant Laws regulating elections, and make due re turn thereof.

 In testimony whereof have caused tho Great Seal of the Republic to be hereunto affixed

 - Done at Washington, this fftf = day of May, in the year of our Lort

 L. S. one thousand eight hundred ana forty-ive, and of the independence

 - of the Republic the tenth

 ANSON JONES. By the President

 EBENEzER ALLEN, Attorney General

 and Acting SecretaHof !Sfate.