Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21
,BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.

A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the
limited States Of the ninth Of September one thou
proposing to the State Of Texas the establishment
of her northern and western boundaries, the relin-
ouishment by the said State Of all territory claimed
bv her exterior to said boundaries and of all her
claims upon the United States, and to establish
Territorial Government for New Mexico" it was
provided that the following propositions should be,
and the same were thereby offered 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 shall be
given on or before the first day of December,
eighteen hundred and fifty, namely:
Faf The State of Texas will agree that her boundary
on the north shall at the point which the me
dian Of one hundred degrees west from Greenwich is inter-
seeed by the parallel Of hirtysix degrees thirty minutes
north latitude and shall from said point due west to the
meridian of one hundred and three degrees west from Green
wich thence her boundary shall due south to the thirty
second degree OF north ATTITUDES thence the said parallel
of thywo degrees of north latitude to the Rio Bravo del
Norte and thence with the channel Of said river to the Gull
4 Of Mexico.
econd 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. ..
"THrd The State Of Texas reinquishes all claim upon
the United States for liability Of the debts OF Texas, and oi
or indemnity for the surrender to the United
States Of her ships. FORTS arsena. custom house. eusm
house and munitions Of war public build
ngs with their Sites which became the property Of the United
| States at the time of the annexation.
Fourth. The United States in consideration of said
establishment Of boundaries cesson Of claim territory and
REIMBURSEMENT Of claims, will pay the State of Texas the
Of millions of dollars stock bearing five per cent
interest," and redeemabe the end Of fourteen years. the in
terest payable ha-yeary the Treasury of the United
States. ..; ,.... .".a.
"Ffh. Immediately after the President of the United
States shall have been furnished with authentic copy
the act of the General Assembly Of Texas accepting these
propositions he shall the stock be issued in
the State Of Texas 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 stock Texas
for which duties imports specially pledged shall first
file the Treasury Of the United States releases Of all claim
against the United States for account of said bonds
certificates in such form shall be prescribed by the Secretary
of the Treasury and approved by the President the United
States. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to impair qualify any thing contained in the third
article of the second section Of the joint resolution for
ing Texas to the United States approved March first egh
hundred and oryve either regards the number Of
States that may hereafter be formed the State of Texas
or otherwise"
And whereas it was further provided, by the
eighteenth section Of the same act of Congress,
"That the provisions Of this act be and they are
hereby suspended until the boundary between the
United States and the State Of Texas shall be ad-
justed, and when 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 25th of November
last, entitled can act accepting the propositions
made by the United States to the State of Texas,
in an act of the Congress of the United States ap-
proved the ninth day of September A. D. one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty, and entitled AN act
proposing to the State of Texas the establishment
Of her northern and western boundaries, the relin-
quishment 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
! Territorial Government for New Mexico;(" of
which act copy, authenticated under the seal of
the State has been furnished to the President, and
wherein the Legislature of the State of Texas enacs
that the State of Texas hereby agrees to and ac-
cepts said propositions, and it is hereby declared
that the said State shall be bound by the terms
thereof according to their true import and mean
! ing
Now, therefore, /, WILLARD FILLMORE, President
of the United States of America do hereby declare
and proclaim that the said act Of the Congress of
the United States of the ninth Of September last is
in full force and operation.
Given under my hand the city Of Washington, this
thirteenth day of December, in the year Of our
H. S.. Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and
the seveny-fhh Of the independence Of these United
States.
By the President: WILLARD FILLMORE.
DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of State.
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