Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-08-29
of the President TO Congress on this
perplexing and menacing subject.

popular pranch oil the legislature shoult
follow up this noble work and complete
4 il. We confidently trust they will dc
So We fully believe that in few day.
we shall be able 10 announce that thi,
and other healing measures have be-
come laws. That is the consummatior
most devou,ly TO be wished. Then
indeed, would this great and glorious
Republic be once more.
"Whole as marble, founded as the ock
As broad and generally as the ceasing air.
TEXAS BOUNDARY BILL.
The following is the form in which
this bill passed the Senate:
An Ac, proposing to the State Of Tex
as the establishment of her northern
and western boundaries, the relin.
qushment by the said States of oil
territory claimed by her exterior TO
said boundaries, and of all her claim
upon the United States.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. Of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
the following propositions shall be, and
the same hereby are, offered to State of
Texas, which, when agreed to by the
said State, in an act passed by the
General Assembly, shall be binding
and obligatory upon the United States
and upon the said State of Texas: pro-
uided, the said agreement by the said
General Assembly shall be given on or
before the Grst Gay of December, eigh.
teen hundred and fifty.
lst. The State of Texas will agree
that her boundary on the north shall
commence ut the point at which the
meridian of one hundred degrees west
from Greenwich is in,ersected by the
parallel of thirty.eix degrees thirty
minutes north latitude, and shall run
from said point due west to the meri.
dian of one hundred and three degrees
west from Greenwich; thence her
boundary shall run due south 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.
3D. The State of Texas cedes TO the
United States all her claim 10 territory
exterior to the limits and boundaries
which She agrees TO establish by the
first article of this agreement.
Sd. The State Of Texas relinquishes
all claim upon the United States for Ii
ability of the debts Of Texas. and for
compensation or indemnity for the sur
render to the United States of her
ships. forts, arsensls, custom houses,
custom house revenue, arms, and num-
i,ions of war, and public buildings with
their sites, which became the property
of the United States al the time of the
annexation.
4th. The United States, in consider
alton of said establishment of bounda-
ries, cession Of claim TO territory, and
REIMBURSEMENT of claims, will pay TO
the State of Texas the sum of ten mil.
lions Of dollars in stock bearing five
per cent. interest, and redeemable al
the end Of fourteen years, the interest
payable hslf.yearly at the Treasury Of
the United States.
5th. Immediately after the President
of the United States shall have been
furnished with an authentic copy of
the act of the general assembly of Tex,
as 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:
Provided, 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 Texas
for which duties on imports were spe.
cia!ly pledged, shall first file at The
treasury of the United States releases
of all claim against the United States
for or on account of said bonds or
certificates. in such form as shall be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treas.
ury and approved by the President of
the United States: Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued TO impair or qualify anything
containing in the third article of the
second sc.ion Of the "joint resolution