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 APPENDIX. 1005 10. Dedm-ing Act of 1850, ch. 49, myeding the Boundaries of Texas, to be in orcc. Br mus Pmzsrnniw or run Umrmn S·rA·rns or Amzmds. A PROCLAMATION. Wunams, by an act of the Co ess of the United States of the ninth of. 13 September, one thousand eight huliiillred and fifty, entitled "An Act proposing to the State of Texas the establishment of her northern and western bounda- 186% °h’ 4g' ries, the relinquishment by the said State of all territory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial government for New Mexico,” it was provided, that the following propositions should be, and the same were thereby, oH`ered to the State of Texas, which, when agreed to by the said State, in an act passed by the General Assembly, should be binding and obligatory upon the United States and upon the said State of Texas: Provided, The said agreement by the said General Assembly should be given on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty; namely:-- " First. The State of Texas will agree that her boundary on the north shall commence at the point at which the meridian of one hundred degrees west from Greenwich is intersected by the parallel of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, and shall run from said point due wut to the meridian of one hundred and three degrees west from Greenwich; thence her boundary shall run duesouth to the thirty-second degree of north latitude; thence on the said parallel of thirty-two degrees of north latitude to the Rio Bravo del Norte, and thence with the channel of said river to the Gulf of Mexico." "Scc0nd. The State of Texas cedes to the United States all her claim to territory exterior to the limits and boundaries which she agrees to establish by the first article of this agreement." " Third. The State of Texas relinquishe all claim upon the United States for liability of the debts of Texas, and for compensation or indemnity for the surrender to the United States of her ships, forts, arsenals, custom—houses, custom-house revenues, arms and munitions of war, and public buildings with their sites, which became the property of the United States at the time of the annexation.? “Fourlh. The United States, in consideration of said establishment of boundaries, cessiou of claim to territory, and relinquishment of claims, will pay to the State of Texas the sum of ten millions of dollars in a stock bearing five per cent. interest, and redeemable at the end of fourteen years, the interest payable half-yearl y at the treasury of the United States." . "Pii!7}a. Immediately after the President of the United States shall have been urnished with an authentic copy of the act of the General Assembly of Texas accepting these propositions, he shall cause the stock to be issued in favor of the State of Texas, as provided for in the fourth article of this agreement: Prwhlcd also, That no more than five millions of said stock shall be issued until the creditors of the State holding bonds and other certificates of tock of Texas for which duties on imports were specially pledged, shall first file at the treasury of the United States releases of all claim against the United Statics for or on account of said bonds or certificates in such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by_ the President of the United States. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair or qualify any thing contained in the third article of the second section of the ‘ joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States] approved March first, eighteen hundred and forty-five, either as regards the number of States, that may hereafter be formed out of the State of Texas, or otherwise." And whereas it wa further provided, by the eighteenth section of the same uct of Congress, “That the provisions of this act be, and they are hereby, suspended until the bounds between the United States and the State of Texas shall be adjusted, anldywhen such adjustment shall have been effected, the President of the United States shall issue his proclamation declaring this act to be in full force and operation :” And whereas the Legislature of the State of Texas, by an act approved the twenty-fifth of November last, entitled "An Act accepting the pnzosmons made by the United States to the State of Texas, in an Act of the ongress of the United States approved the ninth day of September, A. D. one thousand _ _ eight hundred and nity, and entitled •An Act proposing to the State of Texas t be