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pletion ; and, acting under this assumption of the good faith of the Mexi- 
can Government, the work was projected and undertaken ; but, by the 
recent action of the said Government, the projectors have been disap- 
pointed in their reasonable expectations, and the benefit anticipated can- 
not be realized, and the vast expenditure of time, toil, and anxiety, and 
the outlay of capital, have been made without the possibility of an ade- 
quate return. And for these, and all other injuries resulting from the 
action of the Government, not only to the projectors, but to the indi- 
viduals acting under or with them, the said Barnard and Sidell, agents 
as aforesaid, in their own names and in the name of the Company under 
which they act, enter this as their formal and solemn protest against the 
said Mexican Government and its officers aforesaid, reserving for them- 
selves, and all connected with them, or for whom they may be acting, 
the right to claim and receive from the said Government of Mexico, its 
officers and agents as aforesaid, full indemnity for the said acts of the 
said Government, its officers and agents, and for all other and further 
damages and injury as may in this matter be made to appear as result- 
ing from the aforesaid unconstitutional, unjust, and injurious conduct of 
the said Government of Mexico, its officers and agents as aforesaid. 
J. G. Barnard, 
Chief Engineer Tehuantepec Railroad Company. 
W. H. Sidell, 
Associate Engineer Tehuantepec Railroad Company. 
Duly attested by the certificate and seal of office of Charles R. Web- 
ster, Esq., U. S. Consul at the city of Tehuantepec, on the 11th day of 
June, 1851. 
CARD. 
As the attention of the people of the United States has been recently 
directed to the present aspect of our relations with Mexico, and to the 
difficulties growing out of the Tehuantepec grant, and as many errone- 
ous impressions as to the facts of the case have become prevalent, the 
Tehuantepec Company deem it their duty to place before the public, 
in as succinct a manner as possible, the history of the grant, and the 
nature of the title which is vested in them. 
On the 1st March, 1842, Santa Anna, then President of the Repub- 
lic of Mexico, and invested with the supreme dictatorship, granted a 
concession to Don Jose Garay, a Mexican citizen. In it he says, that 
