The true Democrat., 1854-07-12

avoid these, and to strengthen and more firmly maintain the peace which happily prevails be- tween the two republics, the President of the United States has for this purpose, appointed James Gadsden envoy extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary of the same near the Mex. can government and the President of Mexico has appointed as plenipotentiary ad boo" his ex- cellency Don Manuel Diez de Bonila, Cavalier Grand Cross of the National and Distinguished Order of Guadalupe, and Secretary of State and of the Office of Foreign Relations, and Don Jose Salazar Yllarregui, and General Ma riano Monterde, as scientific commissioners, in- vested with full powers for this negotiation who having communicated their respective full powers and finding them in due and proper form, have agreed upon the articles following:
 ARTICLE l.
 The Mexican republic agrees to designate the following as her true limits with the United States for the future: retaining the same divid- ing line between the two Californias as already defined and established according to the 5th article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the limits between the two republics shall be as follows: Beginning in the Gulf of Mexico, three lagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande as provided in the 5th article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hdalgo; thence, as defined in the said article, up the middle of river to the point where the parallel of deg. AZ min. north latitude crosses the same: thence due west one hundred miles; thence south to the parallel of 3l deg. 20 min. north latitude; thence along the said parallel of 31 deg. 20 min. the 111th meridian of longitude west of Greenwlch; thence in straight line to point on the Colorado river twenty English miles be- low the junction of the Glla and Colorado ri- vers; thence up the middle of the said river Colorado, until it intersects the present line be- tween the United States and Mexico
 For the performance of this portion of the treaty each of the two governments shall nomi- nate one commissioner, to the end that by con- mon consent the two thus nominated, having met in the city of Paso del Norte three months af- ter the exchange of this treaty, may proceed to survey and mark out upon the land the dividing line stipulated by this article where it shall not have already been surveyed and established by the mixed commission, according to the treaty of Guadalupe keeping journal and making l proper plans ot their operations. For this pur- pose, It they should judge it necessary, the con- tractng parties shall be at liberty each to unite to It's respective commissioner scientific or other assistants, such as astronomers and surveyors whose concurrence shall not be considered ne- cessary for the settlement and ratification of true line of division between the two republics. That line shall be alone established upon which the commissioners may fix, their consent, in this particular being considered decisive, and an integral part of this treaty, without necessity ot ulterlor ratification or approval, and without room for interpretation of any kind by either of the parties contracting The dividing line thus established shall in all time be faithfully respected by the two governments, without any variation therein, unless of the express and free consent of the two, given in conformity to the principles of the law of nations and in accord ance with the constitution of each country re- spectively.
 In consequence, the stipulation in the 5th article of the treaty of Guadalupe, upon the boundary line therein described, is no longer of any force wherein it may conflict with that here established, the said line being considered an- nulled and abolished wherever it may not coin- eide with the present, and in the same manner remaining in full force where in accordance with the same
 ARTICLE II.
 The government of Mexico hereby releases the United States from all liability on account of the obligations contained in the eleventh article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the said article, and the thrty-third article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and naviga- tion between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, concluded at Mexi- co on the fifth day of April 1831 are hereby abrogated.
 ARTICLE III.
 In consideration of the foregoing stipulations, the government of the United States agrees to pay to the government of Mexico, in the city of New York, the sum of ten millions of dol larS ot which seven millions shall be paid i'm medltely upon the exchange of the notifications ot ths treaty, and the remaining three millions as soon as the boundary line shall be surveyed, marked, and established
 ARTICLE W.
 The provisions of the sixth and seventh ar- ticle of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo hav- ing been rendered nugatory for the most part by the cession of territory granted in the first article of this treaty, the said articles are here by abrogated and annulled, and the provisions as herein expressed substituted therefor The vessels and citizens of the United States shall in all time have free and uninterrupted passage through the Gulf of California, to and from their possessions situated north of the bounda- ry line of the two countries; it being understood that this passage is to be by navigating the Gulf of California and the river Colorado, and not by land without the express consent of the Mexican government. and precisely the same re- spects, are hereby agreed upon and adopted, and shall be scrupulousy observed and enforced by the two contracting governments, ill reference to the Rio Colorado 50 far and for such distance as the middle of that river is made their con- mon boundary line by the first article of this treaty.
 The several provisions, stipulations, and re- strlctlons, contained in the 7th article of the treaty oi Guadalupe Hidalgo shall remain in force only so far as regards the Rio Bravo del Norte, below the initial of the said boundary provided in the first article of this treaty; that Is to say, below the intersection of the 3l deg. AZ min. 30 sec parallel of latitude with the boundary line established by the late treaty dividing said river from its mouth upwards, according to the 5th article of the treaty of Guadalupe
 ARTICLE V.
 All the provisions of the eighth and ninth, sixteenth and seventeenth articles of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo shall apply to the ter ritory ceded by the Mexican republic in the first article of the present treaty, and to all the | inhf of md loo&L o,,