53Marcy to Worth, December 10, 1848, in House
Ex.
Doc.
17, op.
cit.,
p. 271. The general orders to the War Department had made the division
between the two departments, a line running from the Rio Grande near
El Paso, directly to the Red river at the mouth of Choctaw creek, in
the vicinity of the one hundredth meridian, thus dividing the territory
claimed by Texas. See House
Has.
Doc.
1, 30th Cong., 2nd sess (Ser
no. 537), p. 178.
