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JOURNAL OF THE JOINT COMMISSION. 



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progressed with tlie line as far on the Mesa as was convenient to operate from this side. He 

 proposed to the Mexican commissioner to concur in these plans, and to start also westward. 

 The Mexican commissioner stated he fully concurred in those plans and adopted them,, but that 

 in consequence of having no escort, he could not move at the time proposed, but would follow 



commissioner further stated, that whilst here he 

 [its, agreed upon at our meeting of the 12th to be 



as soon as his 



mon 



erected at this end, and see them completed. 



The American commissioner assented, and further stated that he would leave Jean Ball, the 

 stone-mason, to assist in the work under the direction of the Mexican commissioner. 



The American commissioner stated, that the treaty rec[uired, for the establishment of the 

 line, the concurrence of the two commissioners ; that when he establishes the points west in the 



commissioner 



mi 



American commissioner 



go for nothing. 



commissioner stated, in reply, that to avoid that difficulty 



mi 



name, on the line which the treaty stipulates. 



JOSE SALAZAR Y LAEEEGUI. 

 W. H. EMORY. 



Inihal Point on the Rio Geande, Lat. 31° 4Y, 



met 



January 31, 1855. 



fficers of the vicinity, military and civil, from both sides 

 n of the monument was laid. 



was laid. The following paper — one copy in English, the 

 other in Spanish — was signed by the two commissioners and by the persons aforesaid, placed in 



onument 



COPY OF THE paper. 



" We, the undersigned, have this day assembled to witness the laying of the foundation of 



which is to marh the initial point of the boundary between the United 



ited 



iam Hemslej Emory, and on the 



y Larregui, latitude 31° 47 



"W. H. EMORY, U. S. Ccmmissioner . 

 ''JOSE SALAZAR Y LARREGUI. 

 ''C. RABZIMI^^SKT, Sec'y U. 8. B. C, 

 "JOEL S. ANKRDI. 



'*E. B. ALEXANDER. 

 ''CALEB SHERMAN. 

 "E. K. SMITH. 



"JUAN JOSE SANCHEZ. 

 " ANTONIO ZEPEDA. 

 "GUADALUPE MIRANDA. 

 "YINCENTE AGUIRRE." 



