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 474 PUBLIC TREATIES. M E X I C O. MEXICO, 1828. January 12, 1828. TREATY OF LIMITS WITH MEXICO, CONCLUDED AT MEXICO JANUARY 12, -—-——-—»- 1828; RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE APRIL 4, 1832; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON APRIL 5, 18:12; PROCLAIMED APRIL 5, 1832. Treaty of limits between the United States of America and the United 1,101,7; can States. Preamble- The limits of the United States of America with the bordering territories of· Mexico have been iixed and designated by a solemn treaty, [ses cs n.in," concluded and signed at Washington on the twenty-second day of tmnty of 1815-] February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the respective Plenipoten tiaries of the Government of the United States of America on the one part, and of that of Spain on the other; and whereas the said treaty having been sanctioned at a period when Mexico constituted a part of the Spanish monarchy, it is deemed necessary now to confirm the validity of the aforesaid treaty of limits, regarding it as still in force and binding between the United States of America and the United Mexican States: N,,g,,,,;,,,,,,,,_ With this intention, the President of the United States of America has appointed Joel Roberts Poinsett their Plenipotentiary, and the President of the United Mexican States their excellencies Sebastian Camacho and José Ygnacio Esteva; And the said Plenipotentiaries, having exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: Am·IoLm I. D,v;dg,,g;;mm_ The dividing limits of the respective bordering territories of the United States of America and of the United Mexican States being the same as were agreed and tixed upon by the above-mentioned treaty of Washington, concluded and signed on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the two high contracting parties will proceed forthwith to carry into full edect tha third and fourth articles of said treaty, which are herein recited, as 0 ows: Anrroms II. 1;.,..,,.;,,,,,,15,;.,, The boundary line between the two countries west of the Mississippi shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea, continuing north along the western bank of that river to the thirty-second degree of latitude ; thence by a line due north to the degree of latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Natchitoches, or Red River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude one hundred west from London and twenty-three from Washington; then crossing the said Red River, and running thence by a line due north to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude forty-two north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea: the whole being as laid down in Melish’s map of the United States, published at Philadelphia, improved to the iirst of January, one thousand eight hundred eighteen. But if the source of the Arkansas River shall be found to fall north or south of latitude iorty-two, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude forty-two, and thence, along the said parallel,