Without any stipulation in the treaty to this effect, all such valid
titles under the Mexican Government would have been protected under the
Constitution and laws of the United States.
The third and last explanation contained in the protocol is that--
The Government of the United States, by suppressing the concluding
paragraph of article 12 of the treaty, did not intend to deprive the
Mexican Republic of the free and unrestrained faculty of ceding,
conveying, or transferring at any time (as it may judge best) the sum of
the $12,000,000 which the same Government of the United States is to
deliver in the places designated by the amended article.
The concluding paragraph of the original twelfth article, thus
suppressed by the Senate, is in the following language:
Certificates in proper form for the said installments, respectively,
in such sums as shall be desired by the Mexican Government, and
transferable by it, shall be delivered to the said Government by that
of the United States.
From this bare statement, of facts the meaning of the protocol is
obvious.
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