hundred dollars as governor, and one thousand dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs. The chief justice and associate justices shall each receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The secretary shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The said salaries shall be paid quarter-yearly, at the treasury of the United States. The members of the legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive three dollars each per day during their attendance at the sessions thereof, and three dollars each for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from the said sessions, estimated according to the nearest usually travelled route. There shall be appropriated annually the sum of one thousand dollars, to be expended by the governor, to defray the contingent expenses of the Territory; and there shall also be appropriated annually a sufficient sum, to be expended by the secretary of the Territory, and upon an estimate to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to defray the expenses of the legislative assembly, the printing of the laws, and other incidental expenses; and the secretary of the Territory shall annually account to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall have been expended.

SEC. 33. And be it further enacted, That the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico shall hold its first session at such time and place in said Territory as the governor thereof shall appoint and direct: and at said first session, or as soon thereafter as they shall deem expedient, the governor and legislative assembly shall proceed to locate and estab lish the seat of government for said Territory at such place as they may deem eligible; which place, however, shall thereafter be subject to be changed by the said governor and legislative assembly. And the sum of twenty thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated and granted to said Territory of New Mexico, to be applied by the governor and legislative assembly to the erection of suitable public buildings at the seat of government.

SEC. 34. And be it further enacted, That a delegate to the House of Representatives of the United States, to serve during each Congress of the United States, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly, who shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges as are exercised and enjoyed by the delegates from the several other Territories of the United States to the said House of Representatives. The first election shall be held at such times and places, and be conducted in such manner, as the governor shall appoint and direct; and at all subsequent elections, the times, places, and manner of holding the elections shall be prescribed by law. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given accordingly: Provided, That such delegate shall receive no higher sum for mileage than is allowed by law to the delegate from Oregon.

SEC. 35. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, by and under the direction of the said governor of the Territory of New Mexico, in the pur chase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government, for the use of the governor, legislative assembly, judges of the supreme court, secretary, marshal, and attorney of said Territory, and such other persons, and under such regulations, as shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 36. And be it further enacted, That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed, under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.

SEC. 37. And be it further enac'ed, That, temporarily, and until otherwise provided by law, the governor of said Territory may define the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for said Territory to the several districts, and also appoint the times and places for holding courts in the several counties or subdivisions in each of said judicial districts, by proclamation to be issued by him; but the legislative assembly, at their first or any subsequent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts, and assign the judges, and alter the times and places of holding the courts, as to them shall seem proper and convenient.

SEC. 38. And be it further enacted, That all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of New Mexico as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 39. And be it further enacted, That the following propositions shall be, and hereby are, offered to the State of Texas, which, being agreed to by the said State, in an act passed by the General Assembly thereof, within months from the day of the passage of this act, shall be binding and obligatory on the United States:

First. The northern boundary of said State shall be as follows: Beginning at the point on the Rio del Norte commonly called El Paso, and running up that river twenty miles, measured by a straight line thereon, and thence eastwardly to a point where the hundredth degree of west longitude crosses Red river; being the southwest angle in the line designated between the United States and Mexico, and the same angle in the line of the territory set apart for the Indians by the United States.

Second. The United States cede to the State of Texas all right, claim, and title which they have to any territory lying south of the line aforesaid. And the said State of Texas cedes to the United States any right, claim, and title which it has to any territory lying north of the said line. Third. The State of Texas relinquishes to the United States all claim upon them for liability for any portion of the debts of Texas, and for compensation and indemnity for the surrender to the United States of her ships, forts, arsenals, custom-houses, revenue derived from foreign imports, 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 of Texas.

Fourth. The United States, in consideration of the three preceding articles, and considering that to a portion of the creditors of Texas were pledged the duties on foreign imports receivable in her ports, as a security for the reimbursement of the loans and advances which they made to the said State, and that the said duties, since the annexation of the said State to the United States, have been received and are receivable by them, will pay to the State of Texas the sum of dollars, in a stock bearing five per cent. interest, payable half-yearly, at the treasury of the

United States, the principal to be redeemable at the end of fourteen years; which said stock shall be first applied to the extinction of any debt for which the duties on imports were pledged as aforesaid, and the residue thereof in such manner as the said State may direct: Provided, That nothing herein contained is to be construed to imply or admit the liability of the United States for any portion of the public debt of Texas.

Fifth. Immediately after the President of the United States shall have officially received an authentic copy of the act of the General Assembly of Texas accepting these propositions, he shall cause the stock aforesaid to be issued and delivered to the lawful agent of the State of Texas, as provided for in the fourth article aforesaid; and this compact shall be binding and obligatory on the United States and the said State of Texas.

Sixth. If the said State of Texas shall refuse or decline to accede to the preceding articles, they shall become null and void, and the United States shall be remitted back to all their territorial rights, in the same state and condition as if these articles of compact had never been tendered to the acceptance of the State of Texas.

B.

SEC.. And be it further enacted, That when any person held to ser vice or labor in any State or Territory, or in the District of Columbia, under the laws thereof, shall escape therefrom, the party to whom such service or labor shall be due, his, her, or their agent, attorney, guardian, or trustee, may apply to any court of record therein and make satisfactory proof to such court of the escape aforesaid, and that the person escaping owed service or labor to such party. Whereupon the court shall cause a record to be made of the matters so proved, and also of a general descrip tion of the person so escaping, with such convenient certainty as may be; and a transcript of such record, authenticated by the attestation of the clerk and of the seal of the said court, being produced in any other State, Territory, or District, in which the person so escaping may be found, and being exhibited to any judge, commissioner, or other officer, authorized by the law of the United States to cause persons escaping from service or labor to be delivered up, shall be held and taken to be full and conclusive evidence of the fact of escape, and that the service or labor of the person escaping is due to the party in such record mentioned. And upon the production by the said party of other and further evidence, if necessary, either oral or by affidavit, in addition to what is contained in the said record of the identity of the person escaping, he or she shall be delivered up to the claimant. And the said court, commissioner, judge, or other person authorized by this act to grant certificates to claimants of fugitives, shall, upon the production of the record and other evidences aforesaid, grant to such claimant a certificate of his right to take any such person identified and proved to be owing service or labor as aforesaid, which certificate shall authorize such claimant to seize or arrest and transport such person to the State or Territory from which he escaped.

C.

And be it further enacted, That in case the alleged fugitive shall declare to the court, judge, or commissioner, or other officer before whom he is brought, that he is a free man and not a slave, and the said court, judge, or commissioner, or other officer, shall decide to grant the certificate herein authorized, empowering the removal of the said fugitive to the State from which he or she shall have fled, the said court, judge, or commissioner, or other officer, shall require of the claimant or his agent to enter into a bond, without surety, to the United States, in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the said fugitive shall be removed to the State and into the county, parish, or district thereof, from whence he or she may have fled, and then and there, after the return of said fugitive, he or she shall be taken by the said claimant or his agent before a court of competent jurisdiction, at its first term after such return, and be permitted by the said claimant or his agent to try by a jury the right to freedom of such fugitive, in such form of action as shall be conformable to the laws of the State in that behalf.

SEC.. And be it further enacted, That the following shall be the form of the bond required of the claimant or his agent in the next preceding section. viz:

"Know all men by these presents, that I,

of the county (parish or district, as the case may be) of

in the State of am held and firmly bound to the United States in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid to the said United States or their lawful agent or representative, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, and legal representatives. Witness may hand and seal, this

hundred and

day of

eighteen "The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above-bound who

shall remove a certain person named

is claimed by the said obligor as a fugitive from labor, into the State of from the county (parish or district, as the case may be) of and take the alleged fugitive before a court of competent jurisdiction therein, at its first term, and then and there permit the said alleged fugitive to try by a jury his or her right to freedom, in such form of action as shall be conformable to the laws of said State in that behalf, and afford the said alleged fugitive the facilities necessary to a fair trial, then this obligation shall cease and be void; otherwise, the said obligor shall pay to the United States the said sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be recoverable in a proper action before any circuit or district court of the United States."

And the said bond, having the blanks properly filled up, and being duly executed by the said claimant or his agent, shall be delivered to the said court, judge, or commissioner, or other officer acting as aforesaid, who shall immediately enclose, seal, and transmit the same, by mail, to the district attorney of the United States for the State or district into which the said alleged fugitive may have been removed. And it shall be the duty of the said attorney, on the forfeiture of the said bond, to proceed for the recovery of the penalty thereof; and for his services in the prosecution and recovery of the same, he shall be entitled to ten per cent. of the amount recovered, the residue to be paid into the treasury of the United

States; and he shall be also allowed, for his services in the prosecution of the suit, the sum of twenty-five dollars, whether there be any recovery or not. But if the obligor in the said bond shall comply with the condi tion thereof, or if, upon the return of the said fugitive to the place from which he or she had fled, he or she shall declare before the court aforesaid that he or she has no right to freedom, and therefore does not wish the prosecution of any suit therefor, the said attorney shall, in either of those cases, surrender to the obligor the said bond.

D.

A bill to suppress the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the day of next, it shall not be lawful to bring into the District of Columbia any slave whatever for the purpose of being sold, or for the purpose of being placed in depot, to be subsequently transported to any other State or place. And if any slave shall be brought into the said District by its owner, or by the authority or consent of its owner, contrary to the provisions of this act, such slave shall thereupon become liberated and free.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for each of the corporations of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, from time to time, and as often as may be necessary, to abate, break up, and abolish any depot or place of confinement of slaves brought into the said Dristrict as merchandise, contrary to the provisions of this act, by such appropriate means as may appear to either of the said corporations expedient and proper. And the same power is hereby vested in the county court of Washington, if any attempt shall be made within its limits to establish a depot or place of confinement for slaves brought into the said District as merchandise, for sale, contrary to this act.