A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . iam Morley, Fisher, Samuel A. Maverick, Andrew Briscoe, and JohnW. Moore. James Kerr and John J. Linn were members, butdid not arrive in time to participate. Richard Ellis, of RedRiver, was elected president, and H. S. Kimball, of On the uext day, March 2, a Declaration of Independence adopted, *^* ^^^ unanimously adopted and signed by the members present,March j, 1836 the absentees signing as they came in. The Declaration wasprepared by a committee composed of George C. Childress,Collin McKinney
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . iam Morley, Fisher, Samuel A. Maverick, Andrew Briscoe, and JohnW. Moore. James Kerr and John J. Linn were members, butdid not arrive in time to participate. Richard Ellis, of RedRiver, was elected president, and H. S. Kimball, of On the uext day, March 2, a Declaration of Independence adopted, *^* ^^^ unanimously adopted and signed by the members present,March j, 1836 the absentees signing as they came in. The Declaration wasprepared by a committee composed of George C. Childress,Collin McKinney, Edward Conrad, James Gaines, and BaileyHardeman. The convention spent no time in investigating thedifficulties of the provisional government, but simply demandedthe books and papers and took charge of affairs. On March 4,General Houston was elected to the supreme command of all themilitary forces then or thereafter in the service of the new gov-ernment. Houston was a delegate from Refugio, ha\ing been20S THE REVOLUTION. 209 Period III. TheRevolution 1832 TO1836. Bailey Hardkman. elected from there, instead of from his home in able-bodied persons between the ages of seventeen and fiftywere declared liable to military duty, and provisions wereadopted to compel their service. Liberal land bounties werelikewise offered to the soldiers. Those then in the army, andwho should continue to the end of the war, should receivetwelve hundred and eighty acres ; for sixmonths service, six hundred and forty acres ;for three months, three hundred and twentyacres ; and all new recruits serving six months,or to the end of the war, nine hundred andsixty acres. An appeal to the people of theUnited States for aid in money, supplies, andtroops was published. On March 16-17, a permanent constitu-tion for the Republic of Texas was adopted,modelled after that of the United States, withsome provisions borrowed from the variousState constitutions of the American Union. It provided for a
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