TREATY WITH GUATEMALA. Mancn 3, 1849. 873 T R E A T I E S . BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Much 3, 1g4g_ A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, a General Convention of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of Guatemala., was concluded and signed in the City of Guatemala, by their respective Plcnipotentiaries, on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; which Convention, being in the English and Spanish languages, is, word for word, as follows: MARIAN0 PAREDES, Presidente interino de la Republica de Guatemala. Por cuanto entre la Repnblica de Guatemala y los Estados Unidos de América se ha concluido y iirmado en esta capital el dia tres del corriente mes de Marzo, por mcdio de Plenipotenciarios suticientemente autorizados por ambas partés, un tratado de amistad, comercio, y navigacion que se eompone de un preambulo y treinta y tres articulos, cuyo tenor, palabra por palabra, es cl siguiente. General Convention of Peace, Amity, Oonvencion General cle Paz, Amis- Oommerce, and Navigation, be- tad, Oomercio, y Navigacion, tween the United States of America entre los Estados Uniolos de and the Republic of Guatemala. América y la Repnblica de Guatemala. The United States of America Los Estados Unidos de América pmmbim and the Republic of Guatemala, de- y la Republica de Guatemala, desiring to make firm and permanent seando hacer firme y pcrmanente la the peace and friendship which paz yamistad que felizmente existe happily prevails between both na- entre ambas potencias, han resuclto tions, have resolved to fix, in a man- fijar, de una manera clara, distinta, ner clear, distinct, and positive, the y positiva, las reglas que deben obrules which shall in future be re- servar, religiosamente, en lo veniligiously observed between the one dero, por medic do un tratado 6 and the other, by means of a treaty convencion general de paz, amistad, or general convention of peace, comercio, y navigacion. friendship, commerce, and navigation. For this most desirable object Con este muy deseable objeto, el N¢g<>tiv·¢i¤¢S· the President of the United States Presidente de los Estados [Unidos] of America has conferred full pow- de América ha conferido plenos ers on Elijah Hise, charge d’atl`aires poderes 5. Elias Hise, Encargado of the United States near this re- de Negocios de los Estados Unidos public, and the Executive Power en esta Repnblica, y el Poder of the Republic of Guatemala on the Ejccutivo de la Republica de Gua- Sr. Ldo. D. José Mariano Rodri- temala al Sr. Ldo. D. José Mariano guez, Secretary of State and of the Rodriguez, Secretario de Estado y Department of Foreign Relations, del Despacho del Relaciones Exwho, after having exchanged their teriores, quienes despues de haberse von. x. Tnnyr. - 110
