By even considering any suit on this issue, New Mexico is engaging in a total
waste of time, money, and breath. The reasons go far beyond the doctrine that
long-unchallenged boundaries usually stand.
The State of Texas sold the land west and north of its current boundaries to the
United States in 1850, and surveys were done by John H. Clark in 1859 and 1860.
His work was officially accepted by both Texas and the feds. Since that was
long before the existence of New Mexico, that settles it. Furthermore, a joint
resolution of the Congress dated February 16, 1911, proclaimed "these boundary
lines as run and marked by John H. Clark in 1859-60 shall remain the true
boundary lines of Texas and New Mexico." Another joint resolution of August 21,
1911, required the proposed state of New Mexico to accept these Texas
boundaries. When New Mexico's statehood was effective January 6, 1912, it got
the land to which it was entitled. The federal government had no land east and
south of Clark's lines to give it.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger_Rowlett" <roger.rowlett@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:40 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: TX proposes "free-for-all brawl" with NM over land
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> I have an article with several links on my americasroof blog on this:
> http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2005/03/13/new-mexico-sues-texas/
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> The upshot is that New Mexico's own fiscal analysis of this bill to
> claim land 3 miles east of the current border to the 103rd meridian
> would probably be considered frivolous since the Courts have ruled
> that if a state border goes unchallenged for "a long course of years"
> then it becomes the defacto border. Texas permitted New Mexico to
> enter the Union in 1912 on condition of dropping the claim.
> Ironically though the Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas tripoint jogs in to
> the meridian.
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
>> The Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas
> has proposed a
>> "free-for-all brawl" between the Senates of the two states over the
> lost land
>> that New Mexico is griping about.
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>> See the third of three subtopics in the article at
>> http://tinyurl.com/6mb7d .
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>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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