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planted, and a small excavation made. The document, 
of which the following is a copy, confirmatory of these 
proceedings, was read aloud in English and in Spanish, 
by the Secretaries, after which it was signed by the 
Commissioners and Surveyors of the two Commissions, 
and witnessed by the Secretaries and other individuals 
who had been invited to be present for the purpose. 
It was then placed in a bottle, with a list of the mem- 
bers of the Commission, and a fragment of the Wash- 
ington Monument, and was sealed up and deposited at 
the place designated. 
COPY OF DOCUMENT. 
“ Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-one, the Commissioners and Survey- 
ors, on behalf of the United States and of Mexico, 
named to run the Boundary Line between the two Re- 
publics in conformity with the Treaty of Peace, dated 
at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of 
February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, 
and exchanged at the city of Queretaro, on the thirteenth 
day of May of the same year, being fully satisfied with 
the operations made, and the results obtained, by the 
Chief Astronomers of the two Commissions, do estab- 
lish this point, on the right bank of the River Bravo, 
or Grande del Norte, in 32^ 22' north latitude, which 
in accordance with the provisions of the fifth Article of 
said Treaty, is ‘ the point where it [the said river 
Bravo or Grande del Norte] strikes the Southern 
Boundary of New Mexico ’ 
