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JOURNAL OF THE JOINT COMMISSION. 



ment erected by Mr» Salazar and that erected under his orders. If so^ it might hereafter^ 

 when the country was settled^ produce confusion. 



Mr. Salazar stated^ that in case hoth existed he Avould take the monument erected by Mr. Von 

 Hippel as the true boundary. Assented to by Major Emory. 



The commission then adjourned, to meet at 9*" 30"" to-morrow morning. 



AVasiiington CitYj June 25, 185fi. 

 Commission met at 9*" 30"^ a. m., arid the following preamble and resolution were adopted: 

 Whereas Senor Salazar has stated it to be within his personal knowledge that some of the 

 monuments erected by Mr. Emory were destroyed and others mutilated by the Indians^ in the 

 short s^mce of time elapsing between the construction of these monuments and the final inspec- 

 tion of them by Mr. iSalazar; and whereas it appears, from the maps and views which have been 

 drawu; that the topographical features of the country, based upon astronomical determinations, 

 are represented in sufficient detail to enable any intelligent person to identify the line at any 

 required point ; therefore, be it 



jResolvedy and agreed upon in joint commission, that these maps and views, dur)licate copies 



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United States 



government — shall be the evidence of the location of the true line, and shall be the record to 

 which all disputes between the inhabitants on either side of the line, as to the location of that 

 line, shall be referred ; and it is further agreed that the line shown by these maps and views 

 shall be regarded as the true line, from which there shall be no appeal or departure. 



Mr. Salazar proposed, with the view of carrying out the labors to the end in the soonest 

 time, that the detailed maps be made, one copy by each commission, on a scale of -titIt^i^^ and a 



map of 



a scale of ctoWo* That at the end, when the total 



work was done, the mans should be sisrned, to be 



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should exchange the topographical and astronomical data by which each 



mission 



maps 



mo 



Mr. Emorj stated tliat lie had constructed the maps 

 Colorado on the scale of soloo j t^^e projections for the 

 a scale of -g-o-J or* I* would he exceedingly inconvenient^ if not im 

 them ; he therefore proposed that Mr. Salazar's proposition should 

 leave the California section of the work to stand as it is^ on a scale of , , l-^. This was assented 

 to hy Mr. Salazar, and it was agreed as follows, viz : 



That the detailed maps of the California section of the work shall be received on a scale 

 of 1! owoj tte detailed maps for all the other portion of the boundary shall be comijleted on 

 a scale of c-o-o-oir j and that a general map of the boundary shall be constructed on a scale 



of 6 (T^ 







form 



'o 



this 



W. H. EMORY. 



JOSE SALAZAR Y LARREGUI. 



