Southern shield., 1850-08-24
Texas Boundary Bill.

the establishment Ot her northern duu
 western boundaries, the relinquishment
 by the said State of all territory claimed
 by her exterior 10 said boundaries, and ot
 all her claims upon the United States.
 Be it enacted, &'c., That the followingI propositions shall be and the same hereby are offered to the State of Texas, which, when agreed to by the said State, in an act passed by the General Assembly, shall bel binding and obligatory upon the United States and upon the said State ot Texas. Provided That the said agreement by the| said General Assembly shall be given on orl before the lst day of December, 1850. First. The State of Texas will agree that her boundary on the north shall commenced at the point at which the meridian ot one hundred degrees west from Greenwich isl intersected by the parallel of thirtysix de- grees and thirty minutes north latitude, and shall run from said point due west to the | meridian of one hundred and three degrees west from Greenwich; thence her boundary 1 shall run due south 10 the thirty-second de- gree of north latitude; thence on the said parallel of thirty-two degrees of north | latitude 10 the Rio Bravo del Norte; and thence with the channel of said river 10 the Gulf of Mexico.
 Second. The State of Texas cedes to 1 the United States all her claim 10 territory exterior to the limits and boundaries which she agrees 10 establish by the first article oi this agreement.
 | Third. The State of Texas reIinquishes
 all claim upon the United States for liabili-
 ty of the debts of Texas, and for compen. sation or indemnity for the surrender to the
 United States of her ships, forts, arsenals,
 custom-houses, custom-house revenue, arms
 and munitions of war, and public buildings,
 with their sites, which became the property l of the United States at the time of annex
 atiOn.
 Fourth The United States, in considera-
 ton of said establishment of boundaries,
 cesson of claim to territory, and relnquish-
 ment of claims, will pay to the State oil Texas the sum of ten millions of dollars, in
 a stock bearing five per cent. interest, and
 redeemable at the end of fourteen years,
 the interest payable half-yearly at the
 Treasury of the United States.
 Fifth. Immediately after the President
 of the United States shall have been fur
 nished with an authentic copy of the act of
 the General Assembly 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, Provided, 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 of
 Texas for which duties on imports were specially pledged. shall first file at the T 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 prescribed by the Secretary ot the Treasury, and approved by the Presi-
 dent of the United States: Pr0Uided, also, That nothing herein contained shall be con- strued to impair or qualify any thing con-
 tained in the third article of the second section of the joint resolutions for annex ing Texas 10 the United States, approved March lSt, 1915, either as regards the
 number of States that may hereafter be / formed out of the State of Texas or other wise.
 T The following is the vote on its passage:
 YEAS.-Messrs. Badger, Bell, -Berrien, | Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Clarke, Clemens,
 Cooper, Davis, of Massachusetts, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge, of Iowa, Douglas, FeIch l Foote, Greene, Houston, King, Norris !, Pearce, Phelps, Rusk, Shields, Smith, Spru-
 ance, Sturgeon, Wales, Whitcomb, and
 Winthrop-3C.
 NAYS Messrs. Atchison, Baldwin, Barn T well, Benton, Butler, Chase, Davis, of Mis- sissippi, Dodge, of Wisconsin, Ewing, Hale ; Hunter, Mason, Morton, Seward, SouIe $ Turney, Underwood, Upham, Walker, anc J Yulee-20.
 | In Michigan, now one of the greates r wheat growing States in the Union, the re : cent grain crop has been very abundant
 The Detroit Advertiser says:
 nI "The harvest is over-the prospect O. Michigan for full treasury from her late h golden fields is placed beyond paradven-
 ture. The surplus wheat from this State e will, in the opinion of experienced farmers and millers, double that of any preceding !. year. This may seem extravagant; but no ot a few men, whose judgment is deemed V valuable, express that opinion. The quality 2 of the grain is, in general, excellent; anC e the yield of flour will be large in proportion d Corn has recuperated wonderfully within t thirty days, and now bids fair to yiel( n handsomely. The fears which were pro $ duced by the drought of May and the earl! e part of June have thus been happily dis V sipated."
 ~~0-~~~-~-~-O~-~-~-~-~~ :. However much the recent meetings il U Texas, and the action of Governor Bell Y have indicated different state of things W " we learn from the Galveston, Texas, Civil