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relation thereto, it is not deemed advisable by the Department
to interfere with the parties upon these lands until congressional
action has decided their status."'8 The bill alluded to doubtless
was one which proposed to establish the north fork of Red River
as the boundary line between Indian Territory and Texas.81
The Texas Veteran Association petitioned Congress to cede the
disputed territory of Greer County to Texas, one-half for the
benefit of the Texas veterans and one-half for school purposes.82
Some men who had served under General Sam Houston were in
1882 "too old and decrepit to work, too honest to steal, and too
proud to beg." They observed that Congress could well afford
to smooth their "rugged path to the hereafter by settling the dis-
puted boundary in the manner indicated."
The legislature of Texas by an act83 of May 2, 1882, provided
for commissioners who, in conjunction with persons appointed
by or on behalf of the United States, should run and mark the
boundary line between Texas and the territory of the United
States from the eastern side of Texas "to the degree of longitude
of ioo west from London" as said line was described in the
Treaty of 1819. The joint commission should report their survey,
together with all necessary notes, maps, and other papers, in order
that the question might be settled definitely as to the true loca-
tion of the one hundredth meridian, and as to which fork of
Red River was the true Red River designated in the Treaty of
1819.
The House Committee of the Judiciary, after a careful view
of the facts in the case, was decidedly of the opinion that the
south fork of Red River was the true boundary of Texas, and
that the claim of Texas to Greer County was unwarranted. The
committee believed that Texas should have a hearing on the
30S. J. Kirkwood to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, February 1, 1882, Senate
Reports, 4gth Cong., Ist Sess., VIII (2362), p. 372; see also Price to Allen Wright,
February 23, 1882, National Archives, Office of Indian Affairs, L. Letter Book 9x,
p. 235-
e8See report on H. R. 1715, June 6, 1882, House Reports, 47th Cong., Ist Sess.,
V (20o69), No. 1282.
82The petition is in Congressional Record, 47th Cong., Ist Sess., pp. 20o69-2070.
It was submitted to Congress on March 20, 1882.
8sGeneral Laws of the State of Texas, r882 (Austin, 1882), 5.6; Gammel, Laws
of Texas, IX, 265-266.
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