The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-14
Mr.. Foote,n Ns,u Bill.


The bill of which Mr.. Foote, Of the U. S. Sen
ate, has given notice. to provide for the organiza-
ton of the Territorial Governments of California
Deseret and New Mexico, and to enable the people
of Jacinto, with the consent of the State of Texas
to form Constitution" has been printed. lick
tends to So sections, and occupies SIS pages 1t
does not touch the subject of slavery in these new
Territories, or the right of Shareholders to carry
thither their peculiar property and institution. As
there is expressed here some curiosity to know the
boundaries which this bill desgnates, we give an
extract, for which we are indebted to the Wash,
ington correspondence of the New York Tribune
| Cahfornta,-The boundaries of the new Terri
tory OF California thus described: " Beginning
at the intersection Of the AID degree of North lat-
| tude with the shore of the Pacific Ocean thence
due East with the said parallel of latitude to the
| 10th degree of West longitude thence South
with the said degree of longitude until it strikes the
boundary line established between the United States
and Mexico, by the treaty concluded at Guadalupe
| Hldalgo the I'd of February, 1913; thence by and
with the said boundary line to the shore of the Pa
ciic Ocean; thence Northe-ly by and with the
said shore to the place of beginning extending one
marine league into the from the Southern 10 the
Northern boundary aforesaid, and including all
bays, harbors, and islands, adjacent to the said
shore"
Deseret begins +" at the point on the 42d degree
of North latitude, the Northern boundary OF
California, where it is intersected by the 10th de-
gree Of West longitude; thence due East with the
said Northern boundary of California until it shall
strike the Northern point of the Eastern boundary
of California, it has heretofore existed: thence
South, by and with the said Eastern boundary
line until it shall arrive at the Northern point Of
the Western boundary line of New Mexico thence,
! Southwardly by and with the said Western bound.
airy line of New Mexico until it shall strike the
boundary line established between the United
States and Mexico, by the treaty concluded at
Guadalupe Hidalgo, the I'd day of February 1913;
thence, Westwardly by and with the said last
mentioned boundary line to its intersection by the
10th degree of West longitude thence North, by
and with the said degree of West longitude, to the
point of beginning"
Nel0 Merico.-" All that part of the Territory
of the United States, acquired by the treaty Of
peace, not included within the boundaries of Texas
JaeiHtO.-" Beginning at the mouth of the
Brassos river, and in the middle thereof, and run
ming by and with the middle thereof to the point
of intersection of the Northern boundary line of
the State Of Texas, as laid down in the act of the
Republic of Texas entitled An act to define the
boundaries of the Republic of Texas passed in
the year 1886; thence by and with said boundary
| line to the point Of its intersection with the West
ern boundary of the State of Arkansas; thence
| South by and with said Western boundary to the
Northern point of the Western boundary Of Louis.
lana, to the mouth Of the Sabine river thence by
| and with the shore OF the Gulf of Mexico to the
point OF beginning at the middle Of the mouth of
the Brassos river including any islands adjacent
and opposite to that part Of the coast belonging to
this State