Washington telegraph., 1850-10-09
BY AU HOR ITY.
PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed during The first session Of the Thirty first
Ia. Congress.
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AN ACT proposing to the State of Texas the
establishment of her northern and western
/ BOUNDARIES, the REIMBURSEMENT 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 est ablish territorial gov
ernment for New Mexico.
| Be it enacied III the Senate and House of Rep
resentatires of tie United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the folio wing PROPOSE
tions shall be, aud the hereby are, offered
to the State Of Texas, which when agreed to by
the said State, in act passed by the General
Assembly, shall be binding and obligatory upon
the United States, and upon the said State o:
! Texas: Procidea, The said agreement by the
said General Assembly shall be given or before
the first day of December, isheen hundred aud
! fifty:
FIssr. The State of Texas will agree that
| her boundary on the North shall commence at
the point at which the meridian of Que hundred
degrees west from Greenwich is intersected by
| the parallel of thiity-six degrees thirty minutes
north latitude, and shall run from said point due
west 10 the meridian of one hundred and three
degrees west from Greenwich; thence her boun-
| dary shall due south TO the thirty Second de-
| gree Of north latitude: thence the said parallel
Of thirty two degrees Of north LATITUDE to the Hio
| Bravo del NoIte. 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 agreement.
THIRD. The State Of Texas relInquishes all
| claim upon the United States for liability of the
| debts of Texas, and for compensation or indemnl
| ty for the surrender 10 the United States of her
! ships, forts, srsenas, om-houses, custom
| house revenue arms and munitions OF war, and
| public buildings 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, cessiou of claim
| to territory, and REIMBURSEMENT Of claims, will
| pay to the State of Texas the sum Of ten millions
of dolIas in stock bearing five per cent. inter-
est, and redeemabIe at the end Of fourteen years,
| the interest payable half-yearIy at the treasury
| of the United States.
| Firm Immediately after the President Of the
! United States shall have been furnished with
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 provided for in the fourth arti
cIe Of this agreement: ProUided, also, That no
more than five millions of said stock shall be is
sued until the creditors of the State holding bonds
and other certificates of stock Of Texas for
which duties imports specially pledged
shall first file at the Treasury of the United States
releases Of all claim against the United States for
such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary
| of the Treasury and approved by the President Of
| the United States: ProUided, That nothing here
| in contained shs be construed to impair or quail
| fy any thing contained in the third article of the
| second section of the '.joint resolution for aunex-
| ing Texas to the United States" approved Mach
| first eighteen hundred and forty five, either
| regards the number Of States that may hereafter
| be formed out of the State Of Texas, otherwise
| SEC q And be it further enacted That all
that portion Of the territory Of the United States
| bounded as fellows: Beginning at point in the
| Colorado river where the boundary line with the
republic of Mexico crosses the same; thence east
l wardly with the said boundary line to the Rio
Grsnde: thence following the main channel of
said river to the parallel of the thrty-second de-
| gree of north latitude: thence east with said de-
| gree to It's intersection with the hundred and
third degree Of longitude west Of Greenwich;
| thence north with sid degree of longitude to the
parallel of the thirty eighth degree OF north larl-
tude; thence west with said parallel to the summit
| of the Sierra Madre; thence south with the crest
| of said mountains to the thir,y-seventh parallel of
north latitude; thence west with said parallel TO
| its intersection with the boundary line of the
| State Of California; thence with said boundary
| line to the place of heginning-be and the same
1 is hereby erected into temporary government
| bv the name Of the Territory of New Mexico:
| Prooided, That nothing in this act contained
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| United States from dividing said Territory into
1 two or more Territories, in such manner and at
| suca times as Congress shall deem convenient
| and proper, from attaching any portion thereof
| to any other Territory or State: And prooided,
| further, That, when admitted as a State the
said Territory, any portion of the same, shall
be received into the Union with or without slave
ry, as their constitution may prescribe at the time
! of their admission.
| SEC. 3. And be it farther enacted, That the
executive power and authority in and over said
1 Territory of New Mexico shall be vested in a
Governor, who shall hold his Office for four years
! and until his successor shall be appointed and
qualified, unless sooner removed by the President
of the United States. The Governor shall reside
| within said Territory, shall be commanderin-
| chief of the militia thereof, shall perform the du-
| ties aud receive the enoume ats of superinten
| dent Of Indian affairs, and shall approve all laws
passed by the Legislative Assembly before they
| shall take effect he may grant pardons for Oiien-
ces against the laws of said Territory, and re-
preves for offences against the laws of the United
States. until the decision of the President can be
made known thereon; he shall commission all ofti-
GERS who shall he appointed to office under the
| laws of the said Territory, and shall take care
that the laws be faithfully executed.
Sec. 4. And be at further enacted. That there
shall be Secretary of said Territory, who shal
reside therein, and hold his Office for four years
unless removed by the President of the Uni
ted States; he shall record and preserve all the
laws and proceedings of the Legislative Assembl,
hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and pro
ceedings Of the Governor in his executive depart
ment; he shall transmit one copy Of the laws ano
one copy Of the executive proceedings, on or be
fore the first day of December in each year, t.
the President of the United States, and, at th
same time, two copies of the laws to the Speake
OF the House of Representatives, and the Pres
dent of the Senate for the use of Congress-
And. in case Of the death, removal, resigns alton
or other necessary absence of the Governor from
the Territory, the Secretary shall have, and he
hereby authorized and required to execute an
ner rforu. all tn ardd duties of the Govern