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cording to the tenor of the preinserted decree of the Supreme Govern- 
ment ; and he willingly consents to forfeit the privileges granted to him, 
and whatever sums he or those who might succeed him should have ad- 
vanced, if by any unforeseen event the line of communication shall not 
be established ; and he is also willing that the enterprise should be held 
bound to fulfil all that is here agreed upon. And his Excellency the 
authorized Minister of State, and the same Don Jose de Garay, in their 
respective capacities, renounce any laws in their favor, and hold this as 
the most binding obligation, accepting and taking for granted any addi- 
tional clause which might make it still more so. 
It was so declared and signed by his Excellency the Minister, and also 
by Don Jose de Garay, and witnessed by Don Manuel Madariaga, Don 
Manuel Rojo, and Don Jose Mendoza of this city : which I certify. 
j. m. de bocanegra, 
Jose de Garay. 
Francisco de Madariaga, 
Notary Public and National. 
Engrossed duplicate, at the request of Senor Garay, this 19th day of 
December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in seven sheets, 
the first bearing the first stamp and the other the fourth. 
Corrected, the same parties being witnesses, which I certify. 
(Signed) Francisco de Madariaga, 
Notary Public and National. 
(No. 3.) 
Communication from Bon Jose de Garay to his Excellency the Minister 
of Foreign Affairs and Home Department, showing the progress of the 
work of exploration in the Isthmus, and soliciting to be put in posses- 
sion of the waste lands granted to him by the decree, dated the 1st 
March, 1842, the Supreme Government being pleased also to declare 
included in them all the concessions previously made of any part of the 
said grounds which may have been forfeited in consequence of the parties 
not fulfilling their contracts. 
Most Excellent Sir — I, Don Jose de Garay, projector of the line of 
communication between the two seas intended to be established in the 
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with due respect beg to submit to your Excel- 
lency, that in the fulfilment of my engagements to execute that under- 
