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TREATY WITH THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO.Feb. 2, 1848.

Article XXIII.

Treaty subject to ratification, and ratifications to be exchanged in four months from date of signature. This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and by the President of the Mexican republic, with the previous approbation of its General Congress; and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the city of Washington, or at the seat of government of Mexico, in four months from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if practicable.

Articulo XXIII.

Este tratado será ratificado por el Presidente de la república Mexicana, previa la aprobacion de su Congreso General; y por el Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America con el consejo y consentimiento del Senado; y las ratificaciones se cangearán en la ciudad de Washington, ó donde estuviere el gobierno Mexicano, á los cuatro meses de la fecha de la firma del mismo tratado, ó antes si fuere posible.

Signed in February, 1848. In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement; and have hereunto affixed our seals respectively. Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

En fe de lo cual, nosotros los respectivos plenipotenciarios hemos firmado y sellado por quintuplicado este tratado de paz, amistad, limites, y arreglo definitivo, en la ciudad de Guadalupe Hidalgo, el dia dos de Febrero del año de nuestro Señor mil ochocientos cuarenta y ocho.

N. P. Trist, [l. s.]
Luis G. Cuevas, [l. s.]
Bernardo Couto, [l. s.]
Migl. Atristain, [l. s.]

Bernardo Couto, [l. s.]
Migl. Atristain, [l. s.]
Luis G. Cuevas, [l. s.]
N. P. Trist, [l. s.]




ARTICLES REFERRED TO IN THE FIFTEENTH ARTICLE OF THE PRECEDING TREATY.


First and Fifth Articles of the unratified Convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic of the 20th November, 1843.

Article I.

All claims of citizens of the Mexican republic against the government of the United States, which shall be presented in the manner and time hereinafter expressed, and all claims of citizens of the United States against the government of the Mexican republic, which, for whatever cause, were not submitted to, nor considered, nor finally decided by, the commission, nor by the arbiter appointed by the convention of 1839, and which shall be presented in the manner and time hereinafter

Articulo I.

Todas las reclamaciones de ciudadanos de la república Mexicana contra el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, que se presentáren del modo y en el tiemp que en adelante se espresa, y todas las reclamaciones de ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos contra el go bierno de la república Mexicana, que por cualquier motivo no se presentáron á la junta ó que no fueron examinadas ó decididas finalmente por ella ó por el árbitro establecido por la convencion de 1839, y que se presentáren del