Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-18

States the territories thereof purchase receive
horses mules CATTLE or property Of any kind knowing
the 70 have been stolen within the limits Of Mexican
territory, by the Indians, BY any other person. and
furthermore agrees TO return demand 10 their legitimate
owners what may have been thus stolen, the
shall have been recovered by the authorities of the
United States And in the of any person per-
captured upon Mexicsn ground being carried within
the boundaries Of the United States, the Government of
the latter engages every fair and reasonable
that the nature and circumstance OF the will ad
NIT to and return such captves to their own
country or deliver them TO the agent representative Of
the Mexican Government requiring simply the repayment
to the officer agent Of the United States who may
deliver return them the expenses incurred in the main
tenance and transmission of the rescued captiyes FL
nay, the Government Of the United States promises that
occasion she may have to the Indians from
any point Of her territory, and to settle thereupon her
citizens especial shall be taken not place said
Indians under the necessity Of seeking new homes in the
Mexican territory.
ARTICLE III.
In consideration Of the grant received by the United
States and the obligations renquished by the Mexican
Republic pursuant to this treaty the former agree pay
to the latter the of fifteen millions Of dollars in gold
or silver coin, at the Treasury at Washington
Of the amount the exchange Of the rat6catons Of the
present treaty at Washington, and the remaining
hs in monthly instaments of three millions EACH with
interest at the of six per cent per until the
whole be paid the Government Of the United States
serving the right to pay up the whole sum of fifteen mil
lions at as early date may be to her convenient
The United States also agree to all claims Of their
citizens, Of whatever right title foundation, which
may have arisen since the date Of the signature Of the
treaty of Guadalupe, or which may not have been
provided for therein of any corporation company
citizen OF the same including the claim Of the socalled
concession to Garay, whose lawful existence Mexico does
not recognise even implied thus extngushing this
among the other claims Of citizens Of the United States
against the Republic Of Mexico said United States obg
ing themselves not to make any payment on account Of
the socaed concession to Garay without having pre-
xousy delivered to the agent Of the Mexican Government
accredited at Washington all the evidence and documents
used by the holders Of the said concession in establishing
their rights and claims legally relnquished in favor Of
Mexico by such holders and claimants; a it is agreed
in the reciprocal release of obligations that the Mexican
Republic exoneraes the United States of America from
all claims of Mexico Mexican citizens which may have
arisen since the date Of the treaty Of Guadalupe that
each Government, in the most formal and effective
ner shall be exempted and exonerated of all obligations
to each other respectively whether of themselves in be-
half of their respective citizens up the date Of the sig
nature OF the present treaty.
ARTICLE W
The Government of the United States shall organize
Board of Commissioners which shall meet in the city Of
Washington, of Mexico the President Of the United
States may direct within one year from the date of the
exchange of the of this treaty the purpose
Of examining and deciding the claims assumed by the
United States in the preceding article according to the
principles of justice the law of nations and the treaty
force between the two Governments and whose award
shall be final and conclusive and the United States
Grating Mexico from all demands Of claims
Of their citizens mentioned in the preceding article and
considering them entirely and forever cancelled whatever
their amount undertake make satisfaction for the same
in not exceeding five millions Of dollars; and it.
for the purpose of dischargng their duties the Board Of
Commissioners should meet in the capital Of the Mexican
republic the Government of the will afford all
sary protection for the continued pacific exercise of its
functions and will extend every facility in the furnishing
to the Commissioners and claimants all such documents
establishing their rights they might require and which
may be within the extent of its reach to supply.
ARTICLE V.
or tha nd
treaty Of Guadalupe Hdago having been rendered
for the most part by the cesson of territory granted
in the first article of this treaty. the said articles here
by abrogaed and annulled and the provisions herein
expressed substituted therefor The vessels and citizens
Of the United States shall in all time have free and unn
terrpted passage through the Gulf of California and
from their possessions situated north of the boundary
line of the two countries it being that this pas
is to be by navigating the Gulf of California and the
River Colorado and by land without the express
sent of the Mexican Government and precisely the
provisions spulations aud restrictions in oil respects
hereby agreed upon and adopted and shall be scrupu-
lousy observed and enforced the contracting
ernents in reference the Rio Colorado far and for
such distance the middle Of that river made their
boundary line by the first article of this treaty
The several provisions stpulatons and restrictions
tanned in the seventh article of the treaty Of Guadalupe
Hdago shall remain in fierce only far regards the
Rio Bravo del Norte below the initial Of said boundary
provided in the first article of this treaty. that is to
say below the intersection Of go Az parallel of
with the boundary line established by the late treaty d
vidng said river from its mouth upwards, according
the fifth article of the treaty of Guadalupe
ARTICLE VI. ~
All the provisions of the eighth and NINTH sixteenth
and seventeenth articles of the treaty of Guadalupe Hi
dags shall apply to the territory ceded by the Mexican
Republic in the first article of the present treaty and
all the rights of and property both civil and ecce-
siastica within the same fully and efectuay the
said articles were herein again recited and set forth
ARTICLE VII.
No grants of land within the territory ceded by the
FIRST article of this treaty. bearing date subsequent to the
18th day of September when the Minister and subscriber
to this treaty the part Of the United States proposed
to the Government of Mexico to terminate the question
Of boundary will be considered valid or be reconsdered
by the United States, will any grants made previously
be respected be considered obligatory which have
not been located and duly recorded in the archives of
Mexico.
ARTICLE VIII
The two high contracting Powers fully impressed that
under the auspices of peace upon the basis of mutual
good faith and of the respect which nations recprocay
owe it is that their prosperity and we'll being must in
crease, especially when from vicinity, their interests
grow to be mingled and identified and recognising the
reciprocal obligations Of civilized Governments and the
laws Of nations agree by these presents proof of that
entire confidence which they mutually entertain and OF
that friendship which they desire to be as perfect una
erabe and complete possible that whenever the tran
guilty and repose of shall be threat
ened disturbed by unlawful invasion of any Of the CT
items subjects Of either Power against the territory
Of the other respectively they will cheerully cooperate
in their endeavors to suppress all such attempts They
mutually and especially oblgate themselves in all cases
of such awess enterprises which may have been pre-
vented through the civil authorities before formation To
aid with the naval and military forces due notice be-
ing given by the aggeved party of the aggressions Of the
citizens and subjects Of the other that the awless adj
yenurers be pursued and oyeraken the high seas
their elements Of destroyed and the deuded capves