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Show -52- PROTOCOLO De las conferencias que pr~viamenle a Ia ral·i.ficacion y can· ge del tratado de paz se luvieron entre lo.s Esc:ws .. Se· fiores JJ. Luis de la Rosa, ministro de 1·elacwnes &nte:wres y esteriores de la Repllblica Jl_fexicana, y Arnbrosw B: Sevier y Nathan Cli.J!ord, comisiouados con el r~ngo de nu.- 1ristros ])len·ipotenciarios del gobienw de los Est ados- Untdos de America. En Ia cimlad de QncrCtaro, a los veintiseis dias del mes de Mayo del aiio de 1848, reunidos el Escm~. Sr. D. ~uis de la Rosa )linistro de Relaciones de la Repltbhca 1\Iextcana, Y los Esc~os. Sres. Nathan Clifford y Ambrosio H. Sevier, Comisionados con plenos poderes del Gobicrno de los Estados-Unidos de America para hacer al de In Repltblic~ Mexicana las esplicaciones convenientcs sabre las modificaciones que cl senado Y gobierno de dichos Estados.Unidos han hecho al tratado d~ paz, amistad, limites y arreglo definitivo entre ambas RcpUbhcas, firmado en la ciudad de Guadalupe Hidalgo el din 2 de Fehrero del presente aiio; despues de haber conferenciado rletenidamente sabre las indicadas variaciones, han acordado con· :signar en el presente protocolo las siguientes esplicacioncs, que los cspresados Escmos. Sres. comisionados han dado en nombre de su Gobicrno y desempefiando Ia comision que ~.stc les confiri6 cerca del de Ia RepUblica Mexicana. 1. ~ El Gobierno americana, suprimiendo el articulo J.i del tratado de Guadalupe, y sustituyendo a el el articulo HT del de Ia Luisiana, no ha pretendido disminuir en nada lo que estaba pactado por el citado articulo IX en favor de los habitantes de los territories cedidos por Mexico. Entiende que to· do esto esta contenido en el articulo III del tratado de Ia Luisiana. En consecuencia, todos los goces y garantias que en el Orden civil, en el politico y religioso tendrian los dichos hahitantcs de los territories cedidos, si hubiese snb.sistido el articulo lX del tratado, esos mismos, sin diferencia alguna, ten· dr:.n bajo el articulo que se ha snstituido. -53- PROTOCOL Of the conference prev-ious to the ratification and change if tlte 1'reaty if Peace between Ambrose Il Sevier and Nathan Clifford, commisioned as miuisters plenipotentiaries, on the JJart of tlw United States of America, and Don Luis de la Rosa, minister of foreign and internal affairs of tiLe Me3:i· can Republic. In the city of Queretaro, on the twenty-sixth of the month of 1\'lay, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, at a conference between their Excellencies, Nathan CliffOrd ana Ambrose J-f. Sevier, Commissioners of the United States of America, with full powers from their government to make to the 1\fexican Republic' suitable explanations in regard to the amendments "hich the Senate and Government of the said United States have made in the treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and defini· tive settlement between the two Rcpnbhcs, signed in the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of Febrnary of the present year, and His Excellency, Don Luis de Ia Rosa, 1\Iinis. ter of Foreign affairs of the Republic of Mexico~ it was agreed, after adequate conversation respecting the changes alluded to, to record in the present protocol, the following explanations, which their aforesaid Excellencies, the Commissioners, gave in ihe name of their Government and in fulfilment of the commission confered upon them near the Mexican Republic. 1 1st. The American government by suppressing the ninth \rticle of the treaty of Guadalupe and substituting the third article of the treaty of Louisiana, did not intend to diminish in any way what was agreed upon, by the aforesaid article ninth in favour of the inhabitants of the territories ceded by Mexico. Its understanding is that all of that agreement is contained in the. third article of the treaty of Lousiana. In consequence, all the privileges and guarantees, civil, political, and religious, which would have been possessed by the inhabitants of the ceded territories, if the ninth article _of the treaty had been retained, will he enjoyed by them, without any difference, under the article which has been substituted. |