Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-07-08

respective commanders be paid by the other party ON mu
iusl adjustment Cor The subsistence Of prisoners
and such accounts shall not be mingled with of against
any Others the balance due them be withheld
compensation repsa for any whatever real pc
tended Each party shall be allowed keep commissay
prisoners appointed by ITSELF with every cantonment of p
in possession Of the other which commsay shall
the prisoners often he peases, shall be allowed
ceye, exempt from oil duties taxes and distribute what
comforts may be sent them by their friends and shall
be free transmit his reports in open letters the party by
whom he is employed.
And it declared that neither the preence that dis
solves all treaties any other whatever shall be consider
ed annung suspendng the solemn contained
in this article On the contrary, the of precise
y that for which il provided and during which its spua
lions be sacredy observed the acknowledged
obligations under the law Of nature nations.
Art 3d. This treaty shall be ratified by the President Of
the United States Of America by and with the advice and
Of the Senate thereof and by the President Of the
Mexican republic with the previous appreciation OF its gene
raj Congress and the ratification shall be exchanged in the
city of Washington at the seat of government Of Mexico
in four months from the date Of the signature hereof
err if practicable
In faith whereof We the respective plenpotentiaes have
signed this treaty Of peace friendship, limits and settlement
and have hereuno affixed our seals respectively.
Done in quinupcate, at the city Of Guadalupe Hdago
on the second day Of February in the year Of Lord
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
LUIS 6. III cuEsvAs. |1 Isl
BERNARDO COUTO, II. 81
f qfrt MILL. AIRlSIAlN, L. ST.
And whereas the said treaty. amended has been duly
ratified both parts, and the respective Publications of the
same were exchanged Querearo the thrcth day Of
May last, by Ambrose H. Sewer and Nathan Clifford Com
mssoner the part the Government the United States
and by Senior Don Luis de la Rosa, Minister Of Relations
the Mexican republic, the part Of that Government
Now, therefore, be it known that ], JAMES X Polk, Pre-
sden Of the United States of America have caused the said
har
clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof have hereunto my hand caused
the seal Of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fourth day of July
one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight and Of
the Independence Of the United States the seventy
third. JAMES r. POLK.
By the President
JAMES BucKAsAs, Secretary of State.
ARTICLES REFERRED TO IN THE 18TH ARTICLE
OF THE PRECEDING TREATY
FIRST and Fifth articles Of the unrated Convention be-
t,ceen the United STATES and the Mexican Republic of
the Twentieth Of November, ls4s
Art. |. All claims of citizens of the Mexican republic
against the Government OF the United States which shall be
presented IN the and time hereinafter expressed and
all claims of citizens of the United States against the Gov
eminent OF the Mexican republic which for whatever
not submitted to, considered finally decided by
the commission, by the aber appointed by the
ton Of 1885, and which shall be presented in the
time hereinafter specified, shall be referred four commits
sloners who shall form board and shall be appointed the
following MANNER that is say Two commissioners shall
be appointed by the President Of the Mexican republic and
the other two by the President Of the United States with the
appreciation and of the Senate The said commits
sioner thus appointed SHALL in presence Of each other take
oath to examine and decide mpaaly the claims submit
ted to hem and which may lawfully be considered according
to the proofs which shall be presented the principles Of right
and JUSTICE the law Of nations and the eat between the
two republics.
Art g. All claims Of citizens of the United States against
the Government Of the Mexican republic, which were con-
sdeed by the commissioners and referred u the umpire APP
pointed under the convention of the eleventh April 1885, and
which decided by him. shall be referred to and de-
cided by the umpire to be appointed provided by this con-
vention, the points submitted the umpire under the late
convention, and his decision shall be final and conclusive 1t
also agreed that if the respective commissioners shall deem
expedient, they may submit said abiler new agu-
ments upon the said claims.