No. 413.
Mr. Morgan
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, June 29, 1883.
(Received July 11.)
No. 651.]Sir: Your telegram of the 5th instant authorizing
me to conclude an agreement with the Mexican Government by which the
agreement entered into between the United States and Mexico on the 29th
July, 1882, and which expires, by the terms of the protocol thereto, on the
18th of August next, should be extended one year from the date stated in the
agreement as it was originally entered into, or one year from the 18th
August next, was received by me in the evening of the same day.
The following morning I addressed a note to Señor Fernandez, in which I
communicated to him the contents thereof. This note I delivered in person;
Señor Fernandez said that he would immediately place the matter before the
President. The next day he wrote me that he had complied with his promise,
and that, under instructions from the President, he had made the application
to the Senate which is necessary to authorize the agreement. This I
acquainted you with, by cable, on the 7th instant.
On the 17th instant I received a note from Señor Fernandez, dated 15th, in
which he informed me that the Senate had given the authorization to the
President which had been asked. He stated that if I were authorized to make
the agreement, he was ready to enter into it.
On the 19th of June I wrote to him (Fernandez) saying to him that I was
authorized, and that I would meet him for the purpose on any day which would
suit his convenience. He fixed Thursday, the 28th instant, and at 6 p.m. of
that day I repaired to the department for foreign affairs, and there signed
the agreement, which I inclose herewith.
I am, sir, &c.,
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[Inclosure in No. 651.]
mexico.—reciprocal right to pursue savage indians
across boundary line.
Agreement between the United States and
Mexico for the prolongation of agreement signed at Washington
July 29, 1882.
(Signed and exchanged at the city of Mexico June 29,
1883.)
Memorandum of an agreement entered into in behalf of
their respective Governments, by Philip H. Morgan, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, and José
Fernandez, oficial mayor of the department for foreign affairs of
Mexico, and in charge thereof, for the prolongation of the agreement
entered into between their respective Governments by Frederick T.
Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and
Matias Romero, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the
Republic of Mexico, at Washington, on the twenty-ninth July, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, and the protocol thereto attached, signed by the
same parties in their aforesaid respective capacities, of the
twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, which provides
for the reciprocal crossing, in the unpopulated or desert parts of the
international boundary line, by the regular federal troops of the
respective Governments, in pursuit of savage hostile Indians.
Only Article. It is agreed that the agreement
entered into between the United States of America, therein represented
by Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, their Secretary of State, and the Mexican
Republic, therein represented by Matias Romero, their envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, at Washington, on the
twenty-ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the
protocol thereto, signed by the same parties as above named and in their
respective capacities as aforesaid, on the twenty-first day of
September, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, which provides for the
reciprocal crossing, in the unpopulated or desert parts of the
international boundary line, by the regular federal troops of the
respective Governments, in pursuit of savage hostile Indians, which said
agreement, as well as the protocol thereto, expires on the eighteenth
day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is
hereby prorogued, in all of its parts, conditions, and stipulations, for
one year from the eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and
eighty-three: That is to say, until the eighteenth day of August,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
In faith of which we have interchangeably
signed this memorandum, at the city of
Mexico, this twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen
hundred and eighty-three.
P. H. MORGAN
. [
seal.]
JOSÉ FERNANDEZ
, [
seal.]
