US Presidency
1848

In pursuance of the provisions of the thirteenth article of the treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement with the Republic of Mexico, and of the act of July 29, 1848, claims of our citizens, which had been already liquidated and decided, against the Mexican Republic amounting, with the interest thereon, to $ 2,023,832.51 have been liquidated and paid. There remain to be paid of these claims $ 74,192.26. Congress at its last session having made no provision for executing the fifteenth article of the treaty, by which the United States assume to make satisfaction for the unliquidated claims of our citizens against Mexico to an amount not exceeding three and a quarter millions of dollars, the subject is again recommended to your favorable consideration. The exchange of ratifications of the treaty with Mexico took place on the 30th of May, 1848.