16 NORTH BOUNDARY PRESENT STATES AND TERRITORIES. 



terminated by the treaty negotiated at the town of Guadalupe, by 

 Mr. Trist, on the 2d of February, 1848 ; and, by this compact, 

 the limit between our respective territories was greatly changed 

 from that which had been fixed by the treaty with Spain in 1819. 

 According to the convention of Mr. Trist, the boundary between 

 the republics commences in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from 

 land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio 

 Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it 

 should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea ; 

 from thence it passes up the middle of that river, following the 

 deepest channel, when it has more than one, to the point, where it 

 strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico, thence, westerly, 

 along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico, which runs 

 north of the town of El Paso, to its western termination ; — thence 

 northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects 

 the first branch of the river Gila, or, if it does not intersect any 

 branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to 

 such branch, and then in a direct line to the same ; — thence down 

 the middle of the said branch and of said river, until it empties 

 into the Rio Colorado ; — thence across the Rio Colorado, follow- 

 ing the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the 

 Pacific Ocean. 



It will be perceived by inspecting the map that this new boun- 

 dary cuts off a large portion of northern Mexico, and gives us the 

 valuable territories of New Mexico and Upper California, together 

 with an undisputed right to the enjoyment of Texas, which had 

 previously been united to the North American confederacy by inter- 

 national contract, after the independence of Texas had been 

 recognized by foreign nations and maintained by its own people. 



The states of the Mexican Republic and its territories are, con- 

 sequently, under the existing constitution, the following : 



1. Coahuila. 



2. Tamaulipas. 



3. Vera Cruz. 



4. Tabasco. 



5. Yucatan. 



6. Chiapas. 



7. Oajaca. 



1. Lower California. 



States. 



8. Puebla. 



9. Mexico, with the 

 Federal District. 



10. Michoacan. 



11. Jalisco. 



12. Sonora. 



13. Sinaloa. 



14. Chihuahua. 



Territories. 



2. Colima. 



15. Durango. 



16. New Leon. 



17. Zacatecas. 



18. San Luis Potosu 



19. Guanajuato. 



20. Queretaro. 



21. Guerrero. 



3. Tlascala. 



