Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-02-09
rHIRTIETH CONGREss--2d Session.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, l849.

HOUSE OF' REP RESEN a lives.
Mr.. Stephens asked the unanimous consent of
the House to introduce the following resolutions,
which were read for information:
Resolved, That the President Of the United
States be requested to furnish this House with
a correct copy Of the original treaty Of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, entered into on the 81 day Of Feb
ruary, lS45, by N. P. Trist, on The part of the
United States, and Luis q Cuevas, Barbado
Cont and Miguel Artristain, on The part of the
Republic of Mexico-and particularly those ar
lcles 10 said original treaty which were stricken
out OF amended by the Senate of the Emitted
States.
Resolved, further, That the President be re
quested 10 inform Tie House whether there is
any evidence in the Department of State, of an
agreement or assurance made by our commits
siouers with the Mexican Government before
the ratification by said Government Of said
amendmcnls, substantially 10 the following
words, 10 wit.
PRoTocoL
Ofthe conference, previous t. the ratifcnti n ana
change Of The treaty Of peace betwe n .9mbroSe
II. Seuier and Nathan Clifford, Commissioners
and Ministers Plenipot,ntla,y on ths pqrt d
the United Stats of .9merica, and Don Luis
Dc In Rosa, Minister Of Foreign and Iat-rnal
affairs Of The VI: riean Republic:
In the City Of Queretara, on the 26th of the
month OF May, ls4s, at a conference between
their EIcellencies, Nathan Clifford and Am
brose Sewer, Commissioners of the United
States of America, with full powers from their
Government 10 make the Mexican Republic
suitable. explanations in regard to the amend
ments which the Senate and Government Of
said United States have made in the treaty oil
peace, friendship, limits and defnitive settle
ments between the two Republics, signed in The
city Of Guadalupe Hidalgo on the I'd day Of
February Of the present year, and His Excelen
cy Don Luis dc Ia Rosa, Minister of Foreign
Affairs OF the Republic of Mexico, it was agreed
after adequate conversation respecting The
changes alluded to, TO record in the present pro
tocol the following explanations which their
aforesaid Excellencies, the Commissioners, gave
in the name Of their Government and in the
fulhlment of the commission conferred upor
them near the Mexican Republic.
LIST. The American Government, by suppress
sing the 9th article OF the treaty Of Guadalupe
and subslilulng the 81 article OF the treaty o
Louisiana, did not intend 10 diminish in any
way what was agreed upon by The aforesaid ar
ticIe 9Th in favor OF The inhabitants Of The lerrio
ries coded by Mexico. lis understanding is tina
all Of that agreement is contained in The Sd ari
Gle OF the treaty OF Louisiana. In consequence
all the privileges and guarantees, civil, politica
and religious, which would have been possessed
BY the inhabitants OF The coded territories il III,
9hauicle Of the treaty had been retained, will BIZ
enjoyed by them, without, any difference, unde
The article which has been substituted.
ID. The American Government, by suppress
ing The tenth article of The Treaty OF Guadalupe
did not in any way intend 20 annul ne grant o
lands made by Mexico in the ceded territories
These grants, notwithstanding the suppression o
this article of the treaty, preserved The legal ma
lure which they may possess, and the graner
may cause their legitimate titles to be acknopi
edged before the American tribunals, conorma
biz to the Law Of the United Slales-lesitimat
titles 10 every description Of properly, persona
and real, existing 10 the coded territories, an.
those which were Legitimate titles under The Mex
lean law in California and New Mexico up 4
the 18Th OF May, 1916, and in Texas up 10 tn,
ID March, 1885.
Sd. The government OF the United Stales, b,
suspendns the concluding paragraph CT articl,
18th Of The treaty, did not intend to deprive lh,
Mexican Republic Of The free and unresrrainet
faculty Of eeding, conveying and transferring, 3