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The American commissioner stated that he had already sent the whole of his astronomical 

 force to the western end of the 100-milc line, and that it was his intention to follow in the 



coming week with the balance of his forcc. 



The question of the time and place of the next meeting having L^ n raised, the Mprican 

 commissioner stated it was not in his j^ower to say when he wouhl l>e able to join tlio Americf^n 

 commissioner^ Init that he would endeavor to do so as soon n^ possilde. 



The commission adjourned^ to meet when the Mexican commissioner shall join the American 



commission. 



JOSE SALAZAR Y LAKREGUI. 



FoiiT Bliss, August 14, 18j5. 



In pursuance of notification from the Mexican commissioner of his arrival, made in ronformitjr 

 with the last article agreed upon January 31, 1855, the commip^^ioncrs met this day. 



The United States commissioner stated that he had concluded the running and marking of 

 the line up to the 111th meridian of longitude, at which point he met the United Slutca and 



Mexican parties working eastward from the Colorado, and that in thf* una^^oiihihlc ah*?'^nr^ ot 

 the Mexican commi.ssioner he had concluded an agreement with Sonor Jimenez, first engineer 



of the Mexican commission, which he now presented to the Mexican commissioner, and asked 

 his approval of the same. 



The agreement is in the words following^ to wit : 



Seiior Don Francisco Jimenez, first engineer of the boundary commission, on the part of 

 Mexico, being duly empowered by the Mexican commissioner to run the line between the Colo- 

 rado and the 111th meridian cf longitude, having arrived at the camp of the American com- 

 missioner, the latter invited him, in the absence of the Mexican commissioner, to a conference, 

 having for its object the more speedy completion of the unfinished portion of the line ; and 

 accordingly the two have met this day, and the following is the report of that conference and 



its results : 



The American commissioner stated that he had separated from the Mexican commissioner on 



the Cth of February ; that the Mexican commissioner being unable to proceed with the line at 

 that time, had empowered the American commissioner to proceed with it, and had agreed to 

 adopt the line established by him in conformity with the treaty. 



The journal of the joint commission, duly signed and sealed, was exhibited to Senor Jimenez, 

 and a copy of the record of the 26th January, duly authenticated, furnished him. The Ameri- 

 can commissioner stated that he had caused the line to be run and the monuments to be erected 

 as far as the llltb meridian of longitude. That meridian had been established from observa- 

 tions at Los Xogales by principal assistant Clark ; and Seuor Jimenez was invited to inspect 

 the instruments, still in position, with which these observations were made, the observations 

 themselves, and the computations by which the results were obtained. The result of that 

 inspection being satisfactory, the American commissioner proposed, that in view of the urgent 

 demands of both governments, to complete the line, Seiior Jimenez should unite witb the 

 American party, and direct the whole force of both parties to complete the tracing and markino' 

 of the line on the face of the eartli from the llltb meridian, already established, to the point 

 wbere Seiior Jimenez and Lieutenant Michler left off in their attempt to run the line eastward. 



