The southern press., 1850-10-02
AMENDMENTS AND VOTES
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON THE
Several Compromise or Omnibus Bills
TENAS AND NEW MEXICO.
Arc1rsr osth 1870

AUGUST 2Sth, 1850.
The bill from the Senate, entitled "An act
(No. BOD proposing to the State of Texas the
establishment of her northern and western boun
dares, the REIMBURSEMENT by the said State of
al territory claimed by her exterior to said boun-
Diary, and of all her claims upon the United
States" The bill is as follows:
BE Il enacted by The Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues Of The United States of America an
Congress assembled, That the following propo-
sitons shall be, and the same hereby are, offered
to the State Of Texas, which, when agreed to
by the said State, in IN act passed by the Gen
eral Assembly, shall be binding and obligatory
upon the United States, and upon the said State
of Texas Propided, The said agreement by the
said General Assembly shall be given on or be-
fore the first dry of December, eighteen hun
dred and fifty.
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 de-
grees west from Greenwich is intersected by the
parallel of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north
latitude, and shall run from said point due west
to the meridian of one hundred and three de-
grecs west from Gret nwich thence her boun-
dairy 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.
Second. 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 agree
ment
| Third The State of Texas relnquishes all
claim upon the Uni'ed States for liability of the
debts of Texas, and for compensation or ndem
nifty for the surrender to the United States OF
her ships, forts arsenals, custom houses, custom
house revenue, arms and ammunition of war
and public buildings with their sites, which be
came the property of the United States at The
time of the annexation.
| Fourth. The United States, in consideration
of said establishment of boundaries, cession Of
claim to territory, and REIMBURSEMENT of claims
will pay to the State Of Texas the sum of ter
millions of dollars, In a stock bearing five pei
cent interest, and redeemable at the end of four
teen years, the interest payable half-yeary at the
| Treasury of the United States
| Fifth Immediately after the President of the
i United States shall have been furnished with an
authentic copy of the act of the General Assem-.
/ bly, 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 Propided also, That
no more than five millions of said stock shall be
issuei until the creditors Of the State holding
bonds and other certificates of stock 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 States for or on account Of said bonds
or certificates in such form as shall be pre-