All executive power was to be vested in the Governor. all legislative powers in the three councillors. and within three years a convention was to meet at Baton Rouge and frame a constitution. Mild as this was. it was much too radical. and when the convention reassembled in August the delegates were content to suggest a few reforms. which Delassus approved and promised to put into execution. They recommended a provisional government in the name of Spain. courts of justice as much like those of the United States as Spanish law would allow. a militia. land offices. naturalization of aliens. and a printing press under the control of the Supreme Court. To such a government the men who wished for independence and the men who wished for annexation to the United States vowed they would never submit. and soon had a declaration of independence. a standing army of one hundred and four men. a lonestar flag. a State. a constitution. and a president of their own. Delassus having failed to carry out the promised reforms. the convention on the twentysecond of September. under pressure froni the malcontents. commanded Philemon Thomas to take the Spanish fort at Baton Rouge.
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