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 FIFTYZSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 13, 75. 1901. 731 Sec. 2. That section two of said Act is amended by adding to the b,§‘3;§f_ °““° *° b° said section two the words "and all civil suits now pending in other divisions of said circuit court for said southern distr1ct which, if commenced after the passage hereof, would be brought in said southern division shall, upon the application of either party, be removed for trial, judgment, or decree to said southern division." Approved, January 14, 1901. CHAP. 75.-An Act To provide for the establishment of the intersection of the January 15,1901. true one hundredth meridian with Red River, to ascertain the amount of taxes col- *—_;—— lected by the State of Texas in what was formerly known as Greer County and the expenditures made on account of said conmty by said State, and for other purposes. Whereas there was a controversy of long standing between the greer %g¤¤¢r. Tex- United States and the State of Texas as to the ownership of the territory mm °` formerly known as Greer County, Texas, which was iinally determined in favor of the United States by decree of the Su reme Court of the ‘ United States, March sixteenth, eighteen hundred) and ninety-six, in a suithin equity brolught by the United States against the State of Texas in t at court; an · _ Whereas the treaty between the United States and Spain which was ratified February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, fixed. the boundary between the United States and Spain, and this became the boundary between the United States and the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas, successively; and ` Whereas it was provided by saidtreaty that the boundary line " west of the Mississippi shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea, continuing northalon the western bank of that river to the thirty-second degree of latituge; thence b a line due north to the degree of latitude where it strikes the Rio lgoxo of Natchitoches, or Red River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude one hundred west from London and twenty-three from Washington; then crossing the said Red River and running thence by a linedue north to the river Arkansas, and so forth;" and . I ‘ Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States in said cause adjudgedthat the words of said treaty "then following the course of the R10 Roxo westward to the degree of longitude one hundred west from London and twenty-three from Washington; then crossing the said Rei?. Riven; refeirred to the true one hundredth meridian astronomica ocate ; an _ Whergs the true intersection of said one hundredth meridian with Red River, or what,· rior to said decision, was known sometime as the South Fork of Red lgiver, or Prairie Dog Town Fork, has never been fixed by the United States and the State of Texas, acting together and 1n the manner provided b said treaty, nor was said true intersection fixed by the decree in saidy cause; and ` Whereas the said territory formerly known as Greer County was formed into a county in eighteen hundred and sixty, and duly organized as a county in eighteen hundred and eighty-six, under the laws of the State of Texas, and continued as such organized county until the decree aforesaid, with all the rights, duties, powers, and privileges of an or%n1zed county of said State; and · _ hereas during the period of time the State of Texas claimed ownership of and exercised jurisdiction over said territor the said State of Texa patented lands situated in other parts of the State to said Greer County, as one of the counties within the jurisdiction thereof, for school purposes, and which lands said Greer County used and alienated and aygfppritgged the pgoceeds ’ thereof exclusively for school purposes wi in 1 imits; an