The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-17
by the President Of the United States Of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.


by the President OF the United states Of
America.
| a PRocLAMATIoN.
| Whereas by an act of the Congress of tie
| United States, of the ninth OF September, one
| thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled San
act proposing 10 the State of Texas the estab-
lishment of her northern and western bounda
ries, the REIMBURSEMENT by the said State OF all
| territory claimed by her exterior 10 said bound
| aries, and of all her claims upon the United
States, and to establish Territorial Govern
ment 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:
Procided the said agreement by the said Cen
eral Assembly shall be given on or before the
first day of December, eighteen hundred and
fifty, namely:
''FUst The State of Texas will agree that her
boundary on the north shall commence at the point
at which the meridian of one hundred degrees
west from Greenwich is ntersected by the parallel
OF thirty six degrees thirty minutes north latitude,
and shall from said point due west to the meri-
dian Of hundred and three degrees wet from
Greenwich; thence her boundary shall run due
south to the thirty second degree of ro-th atiude
thence the said parallel of thirtytwo 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 linn
Ia md ayvbi she In pafa
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 indemnity
for the surrender to the United States Of her ships
forts, arsenals, custom houses custom house reve-
nues arms and munitions of war and public build
ngs, with their sites, which bees 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
territory, and REIMBURSEMENT of claims, will pay
to the State of Texas the of ten millions of dol
lars in a stock bearing five per cent. interest, and
rcdeemable at the end OF fourteen years, the inte
rest payable half yearly at the Treasury of the
United States"
"Ffh Immediately after the President of the
United States shall have been furnished with
thentic copy of the act of the General Assembly OF
Texas accepting these propositions, he shall
the stock be Issued in favor the State Of Texas
provided for in the fourth article Of this agree
ment Prorided, also, That more than five mil
lions of said stock shall be issued until the creditors
Of the State holding bonds and other certificates Of
stock of Texas, for which duties on imports were
specially pledged, shall frat file at 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 OF the United States: PROVIDED, That no.
thing herein contained shall be construed TO i'm
pair or qualify any thing contained in the third ar
tce of the second section Of the joint resolution for
anncsing Texas to the United States, approved
March first, eighteen hundred and forty five either
regards the number of States that may hereafter
be formed out of the State of Texas 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 uatil the boundary be
tween the United States and the State of Texas
shall BE adjusted; and, when such adjustment
shall have been effected the President of the
United States shall issue his proclamation de-
claring this act TO be in full force and opera
ton"
And whereas the Legislature of the State of
Texas, by an act approved the 25th of Novem-
Der last, entitled ''An act accepting the propo-
sitons made by the United States to the State
of Texas, in an act of the Congress of the
United States, approved the ninth day of Sep
ptember A. ID. one thousand eight hundred
and fifty, and entitled An act proposing to the
State of Texas the establishment of her north
ern and western boundaries, the relinqush
ment 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 a 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 enacts 'that the State of
Texas hereby agreed to and accepts said propo-
sitions, and it is hereby declared that the said
State shall be bound by the terms thereof, ac-
cording to their true import and meaning"
Now, therefore, |, MI.LARD FuLMoRE,
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 at the city Of Washing
ton this thirteenth day Of December, in
T.. q. the year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty. and the seventy fifth Of
the Independence Of these United States.
BY the President:
WILLARD FILLMORE.
DASIEL WEBSTER, Secretary Of State.