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to me the result of this resolution, accepting the assurance of my appre- 
ciation." 
I transcribe for you the orders of the Governor for your intelligence. 
I have the honor to insert for your information, and so that, complying 
with it exactly, you may suspend immediately all the secondary parties 
working under your orders in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, be they either 
scientific or hydrographic operations. You may return speedily to the 
United States, for which be so kind as to send me a list of the individu- 
als, so that it may be proved and they obtain their passports from the 
supreme authorities, informing those who wish to remain longer in this 
Republic as private individuals,' and like all other strangers, they will be 
under the Mexican laws and the vigilance of the authorities, taking care 
to take out letters of security to legalize their residence. Before con- 
cluding this note, I should inform you that for no motive or pretext your 
works can or ought to be prosecuted by the commission of which you 
are chief ; on the contrary, I shall order them to be suspended accord- 
ing to the order inserted in the supreme note. 
I offer you, this time, my distinguished consideration. God and Lib- 
erty. Tehuantepec, 3d June, 1851. 
Maximo R. Ortiz. 
To the Chief of the American Commission, Major J. G. Barnard, 
United States Army. 
Copy of the Reply of Major Barnard. 
To his Excellency, Senor Don Maximo R. Ortiz, Governor of Tehuan- 
tepec : 
Sir — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of your 
Excellency, and the papers inclosed, announcing the act of the Congress 
of Mexico, by which the grant under which the Commission, of which I 
am the head, is acting, is declared as forfeited and null ; also informing 
me that the works of the Survey must cease, and the members of the 
party return to the United States, excepting such as may choose to re- 
main with letters of security under the general protection of the laws of 
the Republic. While deeply regretting the course of the Government, 
and protesting against the action under it, as involving in deep injury 
those in whose service the members of the Company are engaged, I have, 
nevertheless, no other course than to comply with your orders, so posi- 
tively expressed, and have in consequence of them caused the labors of 
