It having previously passed the House
of Deputies, nothing now remains but to exchange the ratifications of
the treaty.
On the next day (the 26th of May) the commissioners were for the first
time presented to the President of the Republic and their credentials
placed in his hands. On this occasion the commissioners delivered an
address to the President of Mexico, and he replied. In their dispatch of
the 30th of May the commissioners say:
We inclose a copy of our address to the President, and also a copy of
his reply. Several conferences afterwards took place between Messrs.
Rosa, Cuevas, Conto, and ourselves, which it is not thought necessary to
recapitulate, as we inclose a copy of the protocol, which contains the
substance of the conversations. We have now the satisfaction to announce
that the exchange of ratifications was effected to-day.
This dispatch was communicated with my message of the 6th of July last,
and published by order of Congress.
The treaty, as amended by the Senate of the United States, with the
accompanying papers and the evidence that in that form it had been
ratified by Mexico, was received at Washington on the 4th day of July,
1848, and immediately proclaimed as the supreme law of the land.
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