28th Congress, Second Session
Whereas the people of the territory of Florida did, in like manner by their delegates, on the eleventh day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, form for themselves a constitution and State Government, both of which said constitutions are republican, and said conventions having asked the admission of their respective territories into the Union as States, on equal footing with the original states: Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the States of Iowa and Florida be and the same are hereby, declared to be States of the United States of America, and are hereby admitted into the Union on equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever.
Section 5. And be it further enacted, That said State of Florida shall embrace the territories of East and West Florida, which by the treaty of amity, settlement and limits between the United States and Spain, on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, were ceded to the United States.
–An Act for the Admission of the States of Iowa
and Florida into the Union, 1845
What does the text say about East and West Florida?
East and West Florida will be admitted into the Union as States.
East and West Florida will be on equal footing with the original states in all respects.
The State of Florida shall embrace the territories of East and West Florida.
The State of Florida shall divide the territories of East and West Florida.