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2. Mr. Salazar, the Mexican commissioner, agrees to adopt iinconJitionally all tlie nioim- 

 mcnts, moimds, lines, and points now established by Mr. Emory, tlie American commissioner, 

 and by his assistants, reserving the riglit to substitute a monument for a mound at the inter- 

 section of the meridian witli the parallel of 31° 41', and to erect a mound or monument on tlie 

 same parallel to the south of the Potrillo, and at any point along the line alreadv osf.iblislud 



absence of water. 



was impracticable, owing to the 



agree 



established as ftir as the 111th meridian of longitude, as the true line of boundary between tlie 

 two republics, and they agree also to declare, and do declare, the line established from the 

 111th to its intersection with the Colorado, the true line between the two republics. Tlis 

 further agree to declare the line fully surveyed, marked, and csfablishod through its whole 

 extent as soon as notification is received from ?!oiior Jimenez and Lieutenant Michler that tho 

 topography of the last named line is completed between the lllth meridian and the Colorado 

 river, and it shall be the duty of each to inf:^rm the other when such notilicatiuu is received, 

 and also to report to their respective governments that all the field-worlc of tlm boundary is 

 concluded. 



4. To carry out the stipulations in the first article of the treaty of December 30th, 1853, 

 reciuiring the commissioners to make proper plans of their operations. It is agreed that the 

 two commissioners, with their assistants, shall meet in the city of Washington on the first day 

 of April, 1856. 



W. H. EMORY, U. S. Commimoner. 



JOSE SALAZAR Y LARREGUI, Comm'o Mcx'a. 



Wash 



April 1, 1856. 



W. H. EMORY, U. S. Commksioncr. 



JOSE SALAZAR Y LARREGUI, ComrrCo Mex'a. 



AGREEMENT BETWEEN LIEUTENANT MICIILER AND SEXOR JIMENEZ, REFERSKD TO AT THE MKETING 

 JOINT C0M3IISSI0N, AUGUST 11, MADE AT CAiir NEAR THE INITIAL POINT ON THE RlO COLORADO, 

 TWENir-SINTH OF APRH., 1855. 



According to article first of the treaty of December 30, 1853, between the republics of the 

 United States and Mexico, we, the undersigned, duly authorized to fix the initial point on the 

 Rio Colorado, twenty English miles below the junction of this river with the Gila, and to trace 

 and mark the line from this point to the intersection of the parallel of 31° 20' north latitude 

 with the lllth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich— all the operations necessary to 

 determine this point and the direction of the line having been completed— a c^ree as follows • 



ed by each 

 Greenwich 



is 32° 29' U"A5 north, and that the longitude is 114° 48' 44".i 

 mined from a triangulation by N. Michler, lieutenant Topogra]^ 



army, who has transferred the position of the monument on the old boundarvline near the iunc 



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