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 1874. May 7th.—Guatemalan Indians destroy Mr. Matias Romero's coffee plantation, situated in Mexican territory. 1875. February.—Residents of Guatemala destroy the boundary-mark called "Pinabete," and build another near Cuilco Viejo. 1877. September 7th.—A convention is concluded in Mexico creating a joint commission of Mexican and Guatemalan engineers, in order to study the dividing line of the two countries on the eastern limit of Soconusco and Chiapas, with which Guatemala implicitly recognized that the rights of Mexico to the state of Chiapas were out of question. 1878. October.—A band, headed by Margarito Barrios, a Guatemalan officer, invades the Mexican territory at the point called "Tonintaná." 1879. December 17th.—Thirty-five filibusters coming from Guatemala attack the Mexican village Tuxtla Chico. 1880. September.—Another band, consisting of forty filibusters from Guatemala, surprise again Tuxtla Chico. 1880. December.—The political chief of San Marcos (a department of Guatemala), at the head of two hundred men, invades Mexico, destroys the Pinabete boundary-mark, erects another one several leagues within Mexican territory, and hoists thereon the Guatemalan flag. 1881. June 16th.—The Secretary of State addresses a note to the American minister in Mexico, saying that the Government of the United States, at the request of Guatemala, offers its mediation on the question of limits. 1881, July 9th.—Conference of the American minister in Mexico with the Mexican Secretary of State on the proposed mediation of the United States. 1881. July 25th.—Memorandum by Mr. Mariscal on said conference.