The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-18
THE NEW MEXICAN TREATY.

The Mexican treaty, concluded between Min
lister McLane and the Foreign Secretary of the
Juarez Government hasbeen made public Mex
leo cedes to us in perpetuity the right of
way over the 1sthmus of Tebuantepec by any
route that shall be judged advisable. Both
governments undertake to protect this and all
| other trans-continental routes, and to guarantee
their neutrality. Ports of deposit are to be es
tablished on both 81 les of the Isthmus, no duties
are to be levied articles in transit not intended
Tor consumption in Mexico, and free transportation
OF the mails is expressly guaranteed The transit
OF troops and military stores is also provided for
the most equitable terms and in the spirit of the
most enlightened policy. Rights of way are also
secured from the Rio Grande to the Gulf of Califor
MA Reciprocal commerce is to be fostered bv a.
modified freedom of trade under the eventual advi-
sorry supervision of our own government The fol-
lowing is list OF articles appended to the eighth
article OF the treaty, from which our Government
is to select "such the natural, industrial or
manufactured product of either of the two repub-
lies, whch may be admitted for sale and consump
ton In either OF the two countries under conditions
OF perfect reciprocity whether they be considered
free OF duty, or at rate of duty to be fixed by the
Congress Of the United States; it being the inten-
ton of the Mexican Republic to admit the articles
in question at thelowest rate of duty and even free
if the Congress of the United States consent
thereto"
"Animals of all kinds, poughs, and loose iron
bars, rice poultry and fresh eggs, quicksilver
stone, coal, fresh, salted, and smoked meats wood
and iron houses, raw hides, horns, Chile or red
pepper, drawings and models of large machinery,
buildings; monuments, and boats, boats of all sizes
and classes for the navigation of the rivers on the
frontier, brooms and material for their manufac-
ture bride bits, fresh dried, and sugared fruits
type, spaces, plates for printing or engraving
rules, vgnettes, and printing ink printed books of
all classes bound in paper, pamphlet bound
hops, timber, unwrought and firewood butter and
cheese, geographical and nautical maps and topo-
graphical plans, marble, wrought and unwrought,
machines and implements for agriculture farming
mining, for the development of the arts and
Sciences and their fixtures, either loose or for
their repair, dyewood, fish, tar, turpentine and
ashes, plants, trees and shrubbery, states for roof
ing purposes, common SALT riding-saddles palm
leaf hats plaster of Paris, GYPSUM vegetables,
undressed sheepskins, grain of all kinds and from
which bread is made, flour, wool, lard, tallow lea
ther, and manufactures of leather, every species
OF textile or woven fabric of cotton excepting that
called brown sheeting, (mantatriguena.) W
Religious liberty is assured to all the citizens of
the United States resident in Mexico
In consideration for the above stipulations in our
favor, and in compensation for the revenue surren-
dered by Mexico on the goods and merchandise
transported free of duty through the territory of
that Republic the Government of the United States
agrees to pay to the Government of Mexico the
sum of 81 100000, of which two millions shall be
paid Immediately upon the exchange of the ratif-
cations of this treaty, and the remaining two mil
lions shall be retained by the Government of the
United States for the payment of the claims of
citizens of the United States against the Govern
ment of the Republic of Mexico.
The following are the conventional articles APP
pended to the treaty. relating to the powers of inter-
vention allowed the United States in the internal
affairs of the Mexican Republic:
CONVENTIONAL ARTICLES BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF MExI-
ORDER, &C.
Whereas, In consequence of the existing civil
war IN Mexico, and particularly in view of the dis
turbed condition of the inland frontier of Mexico
ana the United States, occasions may arise when
the forces of the two Republics NAV find it neces
sary to act in concert and cooperation to enforce
treaty stipulations and to maintain order and Sc
curlty in the territory of either Republic; where.
lore the following Convention has been agreed
upon:
Article If any of the stipulations of existing
treaties between Mexico and the United States are
violated the safety and security of the citizens
OF either Republic are endangered within the ter
rltory OF the other, and the legitimate and acknow
lodged Government thereof may be unable, from
any cause to enfore such stipulatons or to provide
TOR such safety and security, it shall be obligatory
on the Government to seek the aid of the other in
maintaining their due execution, as well as order
and security in the territory of that Republic
where such violation and dscord occur: and in
every such special case the expenses shall be paid
by the treasury Of the nation within whose terrific
ry such intervention may become necessary; and if
pubics the authorities of the two Republics nearest
to the place where the disorder exists shall act in
concert and cooperation for the arrest and punish
ment of the criminals who have disturbed the pub
nc order and security of either Republic, ard for
TINS purpose the parties guilty of these offences
may be arrested within either Republic and deIiv-
cred over to the authorities of that Republic with
In which the crime may have been commtted the
nature and character of such intervention as we'll as
the expense Thereof, and the manner of arresting
and subjecting to punishment the said criminals,
shall be determined and regulated by an agreement
between the executive branches of the two Govern
ments.
Article Il.-This Convention shall be ratified by
the President of the United States bv and with the
advice and consent of the Senate of the United
States, and by the President of Mexico in virtue of
his extraordinary and actual executive functions,
and the respective notifications shall be exchanged
at the city of Washington within the exact be
Rod of six months from the date of its signature or
sooner il possible, at the seat of the Constitu
tonal Government if any alterations or amend
ments be proposed by the President and Senate of
the United States and accepted by the President of
the Republic of Mexico.