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 1006 APPENDIX. the establishment of her northern and western boundaries, the relinquishment by the said State of all territoéy claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her claims upon the nited States, and to establish a territorial government for New Mexico,"’— of which act a copy authenticated under the seal of the State has been furnished to the President,-— enacts “ that the State of Texas hereby agrees to and accepts said propositions, and it is hereby declared that the sagd State shall be bound by the terms thereotl according to eir true import an meaning: Act of 1850 Noir, therefore, I, Millard Fillmore, President of the United States of ¢h· 43, d¢<>l¤r¢d America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the said act of the Congress
 * 0;: ml °P‘ of 1:;} United States of the ninth of September last, is in full force and

ope 0n. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this thirteenth day {L S} of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ’ gud fifty, and the seventy-fifth of the independence of these United mes. MLLLARD FILLMOR By the President : Dash. Wzzsrzn, Seo-cfmy of Stale. 11. Rcspcciing the Rescue of an alleged Fuytive ·SZ¢wc al Bosfan. A PROCLAMATION. BY 1*112 Psnsrnsrvr or run Umren S·ru·1=:s. yer, 18; 1g5L _ Wnznus infbrmation has been received, that sundry lawless persons, prin- ---—-—-- cipolly persons of color, combined and confederated together, for the purpose of opposing by force the execution of the laws of the United States, did, at Boston, in Massachusetts, on the fifteenth of this month, make a violent assault on the Marshal or Deputy Marshals of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts, in the Court—House, and did overcome the said officers, and did, by force, rescue from their custody a person arrested as a fugitive slave, and, then and there, a prisoner lawliilly holder: by the said Marshal or Deputy Marshals of the United States, and other scandalous outrages did commit, in violation of law: Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained, and those concerned in violating them brought to immediate and condign punishment, I have issued this my Proclamation, calling on all well-disposed citizens to rally to the support of the Laws of their Country, and requiring and commanding all officers, civil and military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shall he found within the vicinity of this outrage, to be aiding and assisting, by all means in their power, in quelling this, and other such combinations, and assisting the Marshal and his Deputies in recapturing the abovementioned prisoner; and I do, especially, direct, that prosecutions be commenced against all persons who shall have made themselves aiders or abettors in or to this flagitious offence; and I do tiirther command, that the District Attorney of the United States, and all other persons concerned in the administration or execution of the Laws of the United States, cause the forein ofeuders, sud all such as aided, abetted, or assisted them, or shall be filing to have harbored or concealed such fugitive, contrary to law, to be immediately arrested and proceeded with according to law. Given under my hand, and the seal of the United States, this 18th day [1.. s.] of February, 1851. MILLARD FILLMORE. D.ur’r. Wsnswsx, »S`ecMary of Sak.