If such had been its
effect, it was a nullity until approved by the Mexican Congress; and
such approval was never made or intimated to the United States. In the
final consummation of the ratification of the treaty by the President of
Mexico no reference is made to it. On the contrary, this ratification,
which was delivered to the commissioners of the United States, and is
now in the State Department, contains a full and explicit recognition of
the amendments of the Senate just as they had been communicated to that
Government by the Secretary of State and been afterwards approved by the
Mexican Congress. It declares that--
Having seen and examined the said treaty and the modifications made by
the Senate of the United States of America, and having given an account
thereof to the General Congress, conformably to the requirement in the
fourteenth paragraph of the one hundred and tenth article of the federal
constitution of these United States, that body has thought proper to
approve of the said treaty, with the modifications thereto, in all their
parts; and in consequence thereof, exerting the power granted to me by
the constitution, I accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty with its
modifications, and promise, in the name of the Mexican Republic, to
fulfill and observe it, and to cause it to be fulfilled and observed.
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