United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 2
Chap. II.—An Act to provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas marking the boundary between them.[1]
Act of May 18, 1842, ch. 29.
Commissioner and surveyor how appointed.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 commissioner, to be appointed in the same manner;A clerk to be appointed in the same manner. and that for the purpose of carrying into effect the said first article of said convention there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums:
Commissioner’s salary.For the salary of the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Surveyor’s salary.For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars;
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.
Contingent expenses.For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by said convention, including the purchase of instruments, wages to persons employed, and other contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, January 11, 1839.
- ↑ An act for the relief of persons residing within the reputed limits of the States of Arkansas or Louisiana, and beyond the boundary line between the United States 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.