2. "_Resolved_, That it is expedient so to modify the said act of the 3d of March, 1819, as to release the United States from all obligation to support the negroes already removed to the coast of Africa, and to provide for such a disposition of those taken in slave ships who now are in, or who may be, hereafter, brought into the United States, as shall secure to them a fair opportunity of obtaining a comfortable subsistence, without any aid from the public treasury." Read and laid on the table. _Ibid._, p. 258. ~1826, March 14. United States Statute: Appropriation.~ "An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy," etc. "For the agency on the coast of Africa, for receiving the negroes," etc., $32,000. _Statutes at Large_, IV. 140, 141. ~1827, March 2. United States Statute: Appropriation.~ "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy," etc. "For the agency on the coast of Africa," etc., $56,710. _Ibid._, W. 206, 208. ~1827, March 11. Texas: Introduction of Slaves Prohibited.~ Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas. Preliminary Provisions:-- Art. 13. "From and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted." _Laws and Decrees of Coahuila and Texas_ (Houston, 1839), p. 314. ~1827, Sept. 15. Texas: Decree against Slave-Trade.~ "The Congress of the State of Coahuila and Texas decrees as follows:" Art. 1. All slaves to be registered. Art. 2, 3. Births and deaths to be recorded. Art. 4. "Those who introduce slaves, after the expiration of the term specified in article 13 of the Constitution, shall be subject to the penalties established by the general law of the 13th of July, 1824." _Ibid._, pp. 78-9. ~1828, Feb. 25. Congress (House): Proposed Bill to Abolish African Agency, etc.~ "Mr. McDuffie, from the Committee of Ways and Means, ... reported the following bill: "A bill to abolish the Agency of the United States on the Coast of Africa, to provide other means of carrying into effect the laws prohibiting the slave trade, and for other purposes." This bill was amended so as to become the act of May 24, 1828 (see below). _House Reports_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 278. ~1828, May 24. United States Statute: Appropriation.~ "An Act making an appropriation for the suppression of the slave trade." _Statutes at Large_, IV. 302; _House Journal_, 20 Cong. 1 sess., House Bill No. 190. ~1829, Jan. 28. Congress (House): Bill to Amend Act of 1807.~ The Committee on Commerce reported "a bill (No. 399) to amend an act, entitled 'An act to prohibit the importation of slaves,'" etc. Referred to Committee of the Whole. _House Journal_, 20 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 58, 84, 215. Cf. _Ibid._, 20 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 121, 135. ~1829, March 2. United States Statute: Appropriation.~