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" present commercial and political state of the world loudly 
" demands, will at length be undertaken. 
" Many circumstances concur at the present moment high- 
" ly conducive to its execution, and which ought to be made 
" available. 
" The zealous interest which the Mexican Government 
" has taken in tiie matter is clearly demonstrated by the libe- 
" ral concession made to the Projector, and by the promptness 
' * with which all his applications have been favourably answer- 
" ed, as may be seen by comparing their dates with those of 
' the corresponding decrees inserted in the following Appen- 
" dix. 
" The Government of Mexico had undertaken to afford 
" every protection and assistance in its power to the enter- 
" prise of Don Jose de Garay, and all the orders issued with 
" this view were punctually fulfilled. The Commission owe 
*' their most sincere acknowledgments to the local authorities 
" of the isthmus. All the public officers vied with each other 
** in aftbrding every possible assistance to the Commission ; 
" forwarding their object by means of circulars and orders to 
*' the inferior authorities, and readily furnishing all the infor- 
" mation and particulai's concerning their object which might 
" be useful and interesting. 
" The inhabitants of that territory evinced the greatest de- 
*' sire for the realization of this great undertaking, and the 
•' Commissioners were never compelled to make use of the 
'•' armed force which had been placed at their disposal. This 
" favourable disposition was never so apparent as during the 
" act by which Don Jose de Garay was legally put in posses- 
" sion by order of the Government of the territories granted to 
" him, since besides its having been effected with the greatest 
" order, the proprietors of the adjacent lands who were present 
" declared before the civil and judicial authorities, that they 
" had no objections whatever to offer to the concessions, as 
*' they did not at all affect their property. 
" The Commission, fully impressed with the importance of 
" their mission, did not wish to assert any thing on mere con- 
" jecture, nor to be guided by report wliich so frequently 
