When the country was organized later as
a federal government, Texas was joined to Coahuila,† and out of
the two provinces was formed what we know today as the State
of Coahuila y Tejas. The constituent assembly of this state later
divided its immense territory into three departments, one of them
being made up of all that vast territory included between twenty-
eight degrees and thirty-five degrees of north latitude and called
Texas. Later still a new division was made, erecting an addi-
