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Aprusisas. CONVENTION WITH MEXICO. Ratined April 2g},;??:,;,,,,,,,, A Teeny having been concluded and signed in the city of Mexico, arm President on the 12th day of January, 1828, between the United States of Amevf ¤l!¤ U· S·» rica and the Mexican United States, for the purpose of establishing the A_g,T82%_ true dividing line and boundary between the two nations, the third arti- ` cle of which treaty is as follows: “To fix this line with more precision, and to place the land marks which shall designate exactly the limits of both nations, each of the contracting parties shall appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who shall meet before the termination of one year from the date of the ratification of this treaty at Natchitoches, on the Red river, and proceed to run and mark said line from the mouth of the Sabine to the Red river, and from the Red river to the river Arkansas, and to ascertain the latitude of the source of said river Arkansas, in conformity to what is agreed upon and stipulated, and the line of latitude 42° to the South sea. They shall make out plans, and keep journals of their proceedings, and the result agreed upon by them shall be considered as part of this treaty, and shall have the same force as if it were inserted therein. The two Governments will amicably agree respecting the necessary articles to be furnished to those persons, and also as to their respective escorts, should such be deemed necessary: And the ratificatious of said treaty having been exchanged in the city of Washington, on the fifth day of April, in the year of 1832, but from various causes the contracting parties have been unable to perform the stipulations contained in the above mentioned third article, and the period within which the said stipulations could have been executed, has elapsed :-and both republics being desirous that the said treaty should be carried into effect with all due solemnity, the President of the United States of America has for that purpose fully empowered on his part Anthony Butler, a citizen thereof and Charge d’Affaires of said States in Mexico, and the acting President of the United Mexican States havinglin like manner fully empowered on his part their Excellencies José aria Gutierrez de Estrada, Secretary of State for Home and Foreign Affairs, and José Mariano Blasco, Secretary of the Treasury; and the said Plenipotentiaries after having mutually exchanged their full powers, found to be ample and in form, they have agreed and do hereby agree to the following second additional article to the said treaty. Commission- Within the space of one year, to be estimated from the date of the •¤‘¤ ¤¤¢g:¤¤’V¤>'· exchange of the ratifications of this said additional article, there shall Quad w°¥,,n be appointed by the Government of the United States of America and the boundary of the Mexican United States, each a commissioner and surveyor, for line. the purpose of fixing with more precision the dividing line, and for establishing the land marks of boundary and limits between the two nations, with the exactness stipulated by the third article of the Treaty of Limits, concluded and signed in Mexico on the 12th day of January, 1828, and the ratifications of which were exchanged in Washington city on the 5th day of April, 1832. And the present additional article shall have the same force and effect as if it had been inserted word for word in the auove mentioned treaty of the 12th of January, 1828, and shall be- approved and ratified in the manner prescribed by the constitutions of the respective States. (464)