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Public Law 25–II
to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United Stales of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them.(a)(a)
Approved January 11, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United Stales of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them.(a)(a)
An act for the relief of persona residing within the reputed limits of the States of Arkansas or Louisiana, and beyond the boundary line between the United Slates and the republic of Texas, as established by the commissioners appointed to ascertain the same; June 15, 1844, chap. 75.
A joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the commissioner and surveyor to be appointed on the part of the United States, according to the first article of the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them, concluded April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be severally appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate, together with a clerk to the said
A clerk to be appointed in the same manner.
commissioner, to be appointed in the same manner; and that for the purpose of carrying into effect the said first article of said convention,TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 3. 1839. there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums;
For the salary of the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Commissioner’s salary.
For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars;
Surveyor’s salary.
Clerk’s salary.
Salaries when to commence.
For the salary of the clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: Provided, That the salaries of the said officers shall not commence until they shall be ordered into service.
For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by said convention,
Contingent expanses.
including the purchase of instruments, wages to persons employed, and other contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, .