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at London at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or 

 sooner if possible. 



In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the 

 same and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. 



Done at Washington the fifteenth day of June in the year of our 

 Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six. 



RICHARD PAKENHAM (L. s.) 

 JAMES BUCHANAN (L. s.) 



34 No. 21. 1848, February 2: Extract from Treaty of Peace, 

 Friendship, Limits and Settlement, between the United 

 States and Mexico (Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo}. 



Concluded February 2, 1848 ; ratification advised by the Senate, with 

 amendments, March 10, 1848; ratified by the President March 16, 

 1848; ratifications exchanged May 30, 1848; proclaimed July 4, 

 1848. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 681.) 



ARTICLE V. 



The boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the 

 Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the 

 mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch 

 emptying directly into the sea ; from thence, up the middle of that 

 river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one to 

 the point where it strikes the Southern Boundary of New Mexico; 

 thence, westwardly along the whole Southern Boundary of New Mex- 

 ico (which runs north of the town called Paso] to its western termina- 

 tion ; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until 

 it intersects the first branch of the river Gila ; (or if it should not in- 

 tersect any branch of that river, then, to the point on the said line 

 nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) 

 thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until 

 it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence, across the Rio Colorado, 

 following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to 

 the Pacific Ocean. 



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The boundary line established by this Article shall be religiously 

 respected by each of the two Republics, and no change shall ever be 

 made therein, except by the express and free consent of both nations, 

 la w fully given by the General Government of each, in conformity 

 with its own constitution. 



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[This article was amended by Article I of the Treaty of 1853, De- 

 cember 30. See No. 23 Appendix, p. 35.] 



