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TREATY OF PEACE , FRIENDSHIP , LIMITS , AND SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES CONCLUDED AT GUADALUPE HIDALGO , FEBRUARY 2 , 1848 RATIFICATION ADVISED BY SENATE , WITH AMENDMENTS , MARCH 10 , 1848 RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT , MARCH 16 , 1848 RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT QUERETARO , MAY 30 , 1848 PROCLAIMED , JULY 4 1848

IN THE NAME OF ALMIGHTY GOD

The United States of America and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two Republics

and to establish Upon a solid basis relations of peace and friendship , which shall confer reciprocal benefits upon the citizens of both , and assure the concord , harmony , and mutual confidence wherein the two people should live , as good neighbors have for that purpose appointed their respective plenipotentiaries , that is to say : The President of the United States has appointed Nicholas

br Trist , a citizen of the United States , and the President of the Mexican Republic has appointed Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas , Don Bernardo Couto , and Don Miguel Atristain , citizens of the said Republic Who , after a reciprocal communication of their respective full powers , have , under the protection of Almighty God , the author of peace , arranged , agreed upon , and signed the following

Treaty of Peace , Friendship , Limits , and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic

ARTICLE I

There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic , and between their respective countries , territories , cities , towns , and people , without exception of places or persons

ARTICLE II

Immediately upon the signature of this treaty , a convention shall be entered into between a commissioner or commissioners appointed y the General-in-chief of the forces of the United States , and such as may be appointed by the Mexican Government , to the end that a provisional suspension of hostilities shall take place , and that , in the places occupied by the said forces , constitutional may be reestablished as regards the political , administrative , and judicial branches , so far as this shall be permitted by the circumstances of military occupation

ARTICLE III

Immediately upon the ratification of the present treaty by the Government of the United States , s shall be transmitted to the commanders of their land and naval forces , requiring the latter (provided this treaty shall then have been ratified by the Government of the Mexican Republic , and the ratifications exchanged ) immediately to desist from blockading any Mexican ports and requiring the former (under the same condition ) to commence , at the earliest moment practicable withdrawing all troops of the United State then in the interior of the Mexican Republic , to points that shall be selected by common agreement at a distance from the seaports not exceeding thirty leagues and such evacuation of the interior of the Republic shall be completed with the least possible delay the Mexican Government hereby binding itself to afford every facility in i power for rendering the same convenient to the troops , on...