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1831. April 5.

duties, than are or may hereafter be payable in the said ports by the vessels and the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the most favored nation; and, reciprocally, it it is agreed that Mexican vessels entering into the ports of the United States of America, and all articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Mexican States, imported in such vessels, shall pay no other or higher duties than are, or may hereafter be, payable in the said ports by the vessels and the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufac ture of the most favored nation; and that no higher duties shall be paid, or bounties or drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, in the vessels of the other, than upon the exportation of the like articles in the vessels of any other foreign country.

The present additional article shall have the same force and value as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged at the same time.

In witness whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed and sealed the same.

Done at Mexico, on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

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LUCAS ALAMAN.
RAFAEL MANGINO. [L. S.]

And whereas the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by Edward Livingston, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and Jose Montoya, Charge d'Affaires of the United Mexican States, on the part of their respective Governments:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

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Done at the City of Washington, this fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-sixth.

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ANDREW JACKSON.

mayores derechos, que los que se pagan ó en adelante se pagaren en los referidos puertos, por los buques é iguales articulos de fruto, producto ó manufactura de la nacion mas favorecida, y reciprocamente se estipula que los buques M-jicanos que entren en los puertos de los Estados Unidos de America y todos los articulos de fruto, producto ó maufactura de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos importados en tales buques, no paragán otros ni mayores derechos que los que se pagan, ó en adelante se pagaren en los mencionados puertos por los buques y semejantes articulos de producto, fruto ó manufactura de la nacion mas favorecida; y que no se pagarán mayores derechos, ni se concederán otros franquicias y descuentos á la esportacion de cualquiera articulo de producto fruto ó manufactura de cada uno de los dos paises en los buques del otro mas que á la esportacion de dichos articulos en buques de cualquiera otro pais estrangero.

El presente articulo adicional tendrá la misma fuerza y valor que si se hubiera insertado palabra por palabra en el tratado de este dia. Sera ratificado y la ratificacion cambiada al mismo tiempo.

En fé de lo cual, los respectivos Plenipotenciarios, lo hemos firmado y sellado con nuestros sellos respectivos.

Fecho en Mexico á cinco de Abril de mil ochocientos treinta y uno.

LUCAS ALAMAN. [L. S.]
RAFAEL MANGINO. [L. S.]
A BUTLER.
[L. S.]

1831.

April 5.

1828.

January 12. Treaty of Limits, between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States.

Treaty of 22d confirmed.

By the President of the United States. A Proclamation.

WHEREAS, a treaty of Limits between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States was concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two countr es, at Mexico, on the twelfth January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight:

Whereas, also, an additional article thereto was concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two countries, at Mexico, on the fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, which treaty and additional article are word for word as follows:

The limits of the United States of America with the borFebruary, 1819, dering Territories of Mexico having been fixed and designated by a solemn treaty, concluded and signed at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Government of the United States of America, on the one part, and of that of Spain on the other: And whereas, the said treaty having been sanctioned at a period when Mexico constituted a part of the Span. ish Monarchy, it is deemed necessary now to confirm the validity of the aforesaid treaty of limits, regarding it as still in force and binding between the United States of America and the United Mexican States:

Third and fourth articles to be carried

into full effect.

Boundaries designated.

With this intention, the President of the United States of America has appointed Joel Roberts Poinsett their Plenipotentiary; and the President of the United Mexican States their Excellencies Sebastian Camacho and José Ygnacio Es

teva:

And the said Plenipotentiaries having exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon and concluded, the following arti

cles:

ART. 1. The dividing limits of the respective bordering territories of the United States of America and of the United Mexican States, being the same as were agreed and fixed upon by the above-mentioned treaty of Washington, concluded and signed on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the two high contracting parties will proceed forthwith to carry into full effect the third and fourth articles of said treaty, which are herein recited, as follows:

ART. 2. The boundary line between the two countries, west of the Mississippi, shall begin on the gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea, continuing north along the western bank of that river, to the 324 degree of latitude; thence, by a line due north, to the degree of latitude

Treaty of Limits, between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States.

Habiendose fijado y designado los limites de los Estados Unidos de America con los Territorios limitrofes de Mexico por un tratado solemne, concluido y firmado en Washington, á veinte y dos de Febrero, de mil ochocientos diez y neuve, entre los Plenipotenciarios respectivos del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos por una parte, y de España por la otra; por tanto, y en consideracion á que dicho tratado recibio su sancion en una epoca en que Megico formaba una parte de la Monarquia Española, se ha creido necesario al presente, declarar, y confirmar la validez de dicho tratado considerandolo vigente y obligatorio entre los Estados Unidos de Megico y los Estados Unidos de America: En consecuencia han sido nombrados los respectivos Pienipotenciarios, á saber:

El Presidente de los Estados Unidos de Megico á sus Excelencias los Señores Sebastian Camacho, y José Ygnacio Esteva; y el Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America. al Señor Joel Roberts Poinsett, su Enviado Extraordinario, y Ministro Plenipotenciario cerca del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de Megico. Los que despues de haber cambiado sus plenos poderes, y hallados en buena, y debida forma, han convenido y concluido los articulos siguientes:

ART. 1. Siendo los limites divisorios de los Estados Unidos de Megico, y de los Estados Unidos de America en los terrenos colindantes de ambas Republicas los mismos que se acordaron, y fijaron en el dicho tratado de Washington, fecho á veinte y dos de Febrero de mil ochocientos diez y nueve; se procederá inmediatamente á poner en ejecucion entre las dos dichas partes contratantes los articulos tercero y cuarto de dicho tratado, que á continuacion se insertan:

ART. 2. La linea divisoria entre los dos paises, al occidente del Misisipi arrancará del seno Megicano en la embocadura del rio Sabina en el mar, seguirá al norte, por la orilla occidental de este rio hasta el grado 32 de latitud; desde allí por una linea recta al norte hasta al grado de latitud,

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1828. January 12.

Boundaries designated.

Commissioner

where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Natchitoches, or Red river; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red river, and running thence by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South sea: the whole being as laid down in Melish's map of the United States, published at Philadelphia, improved to the first of January, 1818. But, if the source of the Arkansas river shall be found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude 42; and thence, along the said parallel, to the South sca. All the islands in the Sabine, and the said Red and Arkansas rivers, throughout the course thus described, to belong to the United States; but the use of the waters, and the navigation of the Sabine to the sea, and of the said rivers Roxo and Ar. kansas, throughout the extent of the said boundary on their respective banks, shall be common to the respective inhabitants of both nations.

The two high contracting parties agree to cede and renounce all their rights, claims, and pretensions to the territories described by the said line, that is to say: the United States hereby cede to his Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever, all their rights, claims, and pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the above described line; and. in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights, claims, and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line; and for himself, his heirs, and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories forever.

ART. 3. To fix this line with more precision, and to place and surveyor to the land-marks which shall designate exactly the limits of be appointed. 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 the 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 the said river Arkansas, in conformity to what is agreed upon and stipulated, and the line of latitude of 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,

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