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 six·rY-F1Rs*r CONGRESS. Sess. III. Rss. 6. 1911. 1455 known as the Clark lines and heretofore run and marked by him as a commissioner on the part of the United States and concurred in by the State of Texas, and the former ratification of said Clark lines by the United States bg the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred V"'· “·P·’m· and mnety-one, an the State o Texas by the joint resolution passed March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be held Iaind deemed a conclusive location and settlement of said boundary · nes. _ Sec. 2. That the President of the United States is hereb author- ’{°`"*“’“°¥ "°“““‘ ized, in conjunction with the State of Texas, to reestablisli and re- “g<>¤;¤mi¤¤i¤¤¢r¤*¤b¤ mark the boundaryqlines heretofore established and marked by John °P°° md' H. Clark between ew Mexico and the State of Texas, and for such purpose he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a commissioner, who, in conjunction with suc commissioner as may be appointed by and on behalf of the State of Texas for the same urppse, shall re—mark the boundary between the Territory of New exico and the State of Texas as follows: Beginning at the point L°”““°“· where the one hundred and third degrprez of longitude west from Greenwich mtersects the parallel of t ° y-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, as determined and fixed by John H. Clark, the commissioner on the part of the United States in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-nine and eighteen hundred and sixty; thence south with the line run by said Clark for the said one hundred and third degree of longitude to the thirty-second parallel of north latitude to the point marked by said Clark as the southeast corner of. New Mexico; and thence west with the thirt —second degree of north latitude as determined by said Clark to the liio Grande. Sec. 3. That the part of the line run and marked by monuments ,,fe;”,§m,§§g*d¤dg_jg along the thirty-second parallel of north latitude and that part of the boundary. line marked by monuments alo the one hundred and third degree of longitude west from Greenwildg the same being the east and west and north and south lines between Texas and New Mexico, and run by authority of the Act of Congress approved June fifth, eiglhteen V¤l.u.1>.m. hundred and fifty-e` ht, and known as the Clark lines, whic said lines as run by saidlglark have been confirmed, as aforesaid, by the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- V0l·26.P·Wlone, and the joint resolution of the Legislature of Texas passed March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and mnety-one, shall remain the true pmt bouncllary lines of Texas and New Mexico: Prmnhled, That it shall be Re-iiioarking old the dut of the commissioners aplpointed under this Act to re-mark '“°““'“°"“·°*°· said oldy Clark monuments and ne where they can be found and identified by the original monuments now on the ground or where monuments are now missing or the lines can not be found but their original position can be shown by competent (parol evidence or by the topogra hic maps or field notes made by} said Clark, the monuments so foung or their osition so identified s all deternune the true position and course ofp the boundary lines as marked by said Clark to the full extent of the survey made by him, and where no urvey was actually originally made on said lines it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to run a straight line between the nearest points determined b ’ the Clark map, field notes, and survgy, and when said straight hues have been so run, marked, and agrge upon by the commissioners they shall thereafter form the true undary lines. _ _ Sec. 4. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much ‘“""°""’“‘°"‘ thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, __ to carry out the (purposes of this Act: Provided, That the person or ·’;Q'}§§°‘c0,,,,,,,,_ persons appointe and employed on the part of the State of Texas ¤*°¤°*· shall be paid by the said State. Approved, February 16, 1911. -