GROVER CLEVELAND.
PROCLAMATIONS.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the title to all that territory lying between the north and
south forks of the Red River and the hundredth degree of longitude and
jurisdiction over the same are vested in the United States, it being a
part of the Indian Territory, as shown by surveys and investigation made
on behalf of the United States, which territory the State of Texas also
claims title to and jurisdiction over; and
Whereas said conflicting claim grows out of a controversy existing
between the United States and the State of Texas as to the point where
the hundredth degree of longitude crosses the Red River, as described in
the treaty of February 22, 1819, between the United States and Spain,
fixing the boundary line between the two countries; and
Whereas the commissioners appointed on the part of the United States
under the act of January 31, 1885, authorizing the appointment of a
commission by the President to run and mark the boundary lines between
a portion of the Indian Territory and the State of Texas, in connection
with a similar commission to be appointed by the State of Texas, have
by their report determined that the South Fork is the true Red River
designated in the treaty, the commissioners appointed on the part of
said State refusing to concur in said report:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States,
do hereby admonish and warn all persons, whether claiming to act as
officers of the county of Greer, in the State of Texas, or otherwise,
against selling or disposing of, or attempting to sell or dispose of,
any of said lands or from exercising or attempting to exercise any
authority over said lands.
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