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Britain signed a treaty with Guatemala, within whose boundaries most of 

 British Honduras was situated, defining the boundary of that colony. 



The limits between Mexico and Belize are defined by a treaty signed 

 at the City of Mexico on July 8, 1893, and ratified by the Mexican 

 Senate on April 19, 1897, and begin at the mouth of Bocalarchica 

 a strait which separates the State of Yucatan from Ambergris Key 

 ,and adjacent islands, runs along the centre of the channel between said 

 islands and the mainland, in a southeasterly direction, until it reaches 

 the parallel 18 9' north latitude ; thence northwesterly at an equal 

 distance between two keys marked on the map annexed to the treaty, 

 to meet the parallel 18 10' north latitude ; thence, turning toward the 

 west, along the neighboring bay, as far as 88 2' west meridian, thence 

 toward the north until it reaches the parallel 18 25' north latitude, 

 thence it runs toward the west as far as meridian 88 28' $2" north, this 

 point being the mouth of the Hondo River ; thence following its 

 deepest channel, passing to the west of Albion Island and running up 

 the Arroyo Azul until the latter stream crosses the meridian of the 

 Garbutt Falls at a point north of the boundary lines of Mexico, 

 Guatemala, and British Honduras ; and from that point following the 

 meridian of Garbutt Falls, running in a southerly direction up to 17 49', 

 north latitude which is the boundary line between Mexico and Gua- 

 temala, leaving the so-called Snoska or Xnobba River in a northerly 

 direction and in Mexican territory. 



Cession of Mexican Territory to the United States. Mexico has ceded 

 to the United States, by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of February 

 2, 1848, and the Gadsden Treaty of December 30, 1853, 930,590 square 

 miles, comprising over one-half of her former territory. The same 

 cession is considered in the United States under three heads first 

 under the boundary treaty signed in Washington on April 25, 1838, 

 ^between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas, 

 under which Texas was annexed to the United States in 1845; second, 

 under the cession of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty, and the third 

 under the Gadsden Treaty. 



As Mexico did not recognize the independence of Texas until the 

 treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed, we consider that she only 

 gave her consent to that annexation by said treaty, and therefore that the 

 cession of territory made then to the United States embraced also Texas. 



Mr. S. W. Lamoreaux, former Commissioner of the General Land 

 Office, published in 1896 a map of the United States, which contained 

 in detail the different sections of territory annexed to the same in dif- 

 ferent periods from France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia, where the 

 Mexican annexations are clearly defined. From official data of that 

 office, I take the following figures representing the area of each of 

 the Mexican cessions : 



