[No. 6.] A RESOLUTION authorizing the repair of the bridge across the river Potomac, at Washington. 1836. Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to The unexpended have all repairs made to the bridge across the Potomac river, balance appropri which have become necessary from the late flood, and that the expenses of said repairs be paid out of the money heretofore appropriated for the erection of said bridge, and which is now in the Treasury, unexpended. Approved, 7th of June, 1836. [No. 7.] A RESOLUTION providing for the distribution of weights and measures. ated to repairs. sucb weights and intended for cus State. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the A complete set of Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is directed to cause measures as are a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as stan- tom-houses to be dards and now either made or in the progress of manufacture for delivered to each the use of the several custom-houses and for other purposes, to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States. Approved, June 14th, 1836. Contract to be [No. 8.] A RESOLUTION to furnish the Rotundo with paintings. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemblvd, That a joint committee be appointed to contract with one or more competent made with four American artists for the execution of four historical pictures American artisteupon subjects serving to illustrate the discovery of America; the settlement of the United States; the history of the Revolution; or of the adoption of the Constitution; to be placed in the vacant pannels of the Rotundo; the subject to be left to the choice of the artists under the control of the committee. Approved, 23d June, 1836. them. [No. 9.] A RESOLUTION, referring the petition and papers of the heirs of Robert Fulton, deceased, to the Secretary of the Navy, to report thereon to Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Moneys paid to R. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the petition and papers of the heirs of Robert Fulton, be referred to the Secretary of the Navy, to state an account between the United States, and said heirs, by debiting them with all the moneys paid to the said Robert Fulton, and not settled on the books of the Treasury Department. by R. F. for the ed. Second. To credit the said heirs with all moneys advanced money expended or expended by the said Fulton, in and about the busines of the US. to be credi United States, committed to his care, or about which he had an agency. Third. To credit the said heirs a compensation commensurate with the value and importance of the services rendered by the 1836. Commissioners and surveyors to keep journals of their proceedings, and the result agreed upen by them shall be considered as part of this treaty, and shall have the same force as if it were inserted therein. The two Governments will amicably agree respecting the necessary articles to be furnished to those persons, and also as to their respective escorts, should such be deemed necessary:" And the ratifications of said treaty having been exchanged in the city of Washington, on the fifth day of April, in the year of 1832, but from various causes the contracting parties have been unable to perform the stipulations contained in the above inentioned third article, and the period within which the said stipulations could have been executed, has elapsed :and both republics being desirous that the said treaty should be carried into effect with all due solemnity, the President of the United States of America has for that purpose fully empowered on his part Anthony Butler, a citizen thereof and Chargé d'Affaires of said States in Mexico, and the acting President of the United Mexican States having in like manner fully empowered on his part their Excellencies José Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, Secretary of State for Home and Foreign Affairs, and José Mariano Blasco, Secretary of the Treasury; and the said Plenipotentiaries after having mutually exchanged their full powers, found to be ample and in form, they have agreed and do hereby agree to the following second additional article to the said treaty. Within the space of one year, de latitud hasta el Mar Pacifico. Llevaran diarios y levantarán planos de sus operaciones; y el resultado convenido por ellos se tendrá por parte de este Tratado y tendrá la misma fuerza que si estuviese inserto en el, debiendo convenir amistosamente los dos Gobiernos en el arreglo de cuanto necesiten estos individuos y en la escolta respectiva que deban llevar siempre que se crea necesario." Y habiendose cangeado las ratificaciones del mencionado Tratado en la ciudad de Washington á los 5 dias del mes de Abril del año del Señor 1832, no habiendo podido las partes contratantes cumplir por varias causas las estipulaciones contenidas en el mencionado articulo 3o habiendo espirado el termino dentro del cual debian ejecutarse, y deseando ambas Republicas que el referido Tratado tenga su mas puntual cumplimiento llenandose todas las formalidades. necesarias; el Presidente interino de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ha revestido con sus plenos poderes para este objeto a los Excelentisimos Señores D. José Maria Gutierrez de Es-trada, Secretario de Estado y del despacho de Relaciones interiores y exteriores y D. José Mariano Blasco, Secretario de Estado y del despacho de Hacienda, y el Presidente de los Estados Unidos del Norte al Honorable Señor Antonio Butler, encargado de Negocios de aquella Republica en Mexico: y los referidos Plenipotenciarios despues de haber cambiado sus plenos poderes que se encontraron en buena y debida forma, han convenido y convienen en el siguiente segundo articulo adicional. Se proroga por el espacio de to be estimated from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this said additional article, there shall be appointed by the Government of the United States of America and of the Mexican United States, each a commissioner and surveyor, for the purpose of fixing with more precision the dividing line, and for establishing the land marks of boundary and limits between the two nations, with the exactness stipulated by the third article of the Treaty of Limits, concluded and signed in Mexico on the 12th day of January, 1828, and the ratifications of which were exchanged in Washington city on the 5th day of April, 1832. And the present additional article shall have the same force and effect as if it had been inserted word for word in the above mentioned treaty of the 12th of January, 1823, and shall be approved and ratified in the manner prescribed by the constitutions of the respective States. In faith of which the said Plenipotentiaries have hereunto set their hands and affixed their rospective seals. Done in the city of Mexico on the 3d day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, in the fifty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, and of the fifteenth of that of the United Mexican States. fix the boundary un año contado desde la fecha 1836. del cange de las ratificaciones be appointed t del presente articulo adicional, line between the el termino que para el nombra- two countries. miento de los comisarios y geometras encargados for los Gobiernos de Mexico y de Washington de fijar con mas precision la linea divisoria y establecer los mojones que señalen con ecsactitud los limites de ambas naciones, estableció el articulo 30 del Tratado de Limites concluido y firmado en Mexico á los 12 dias del Mes de Enero de 1828, y cuyas ratificaciones fueron cangeadas en la Ciudad de Washington á los 5 dias del Mes de Abril de 1832. El presente 2o articulo adicional tendrá la misma fuerza y valor que si hubiese insertado palabra por palabra en el Tratado mencionado de 12 de Enero de 1828, y será aprobado y ratificado en los terminos que establecen las Constituciones de los respectivos Estados. En fee de lo cual los referidos Plenipotenciarios lo hemos firmado y sellado con nuestros sellos respectivos. Fecho en Mexico a los tres dias del Mes de Abril de mil ocho cientos treinta y cinco, decimo quinto de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y quincuagesimo noveno de la de los Estados Unidos de America. AND WHEREAS the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington, the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, by John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and J. M. de Castillo Y Lanzas, Chargé d'Affaires of the Mexican Republic, on the part of their respective Governments. 1836. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, THAT I, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand [SEAL.] eight hundred and thirty-six, and of the indepen dence of the United States the sixtieth. By the President: ANDREW JACKSON. JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, a Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Navigation and Commerce, between the United States of America and the Republic of Venezuela, was concluded and signed at Caracas, on the twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, which Treaty is word for word as follows: Tratado de Paz, Amistad, Navegacion y Comercio la Republica de Venezuela y los Estados Unidos de America. La Republica de Venezuela y los Estados Unidos de America, deseando hacer duradera y firme la amistad y buena inteligencia que felizmente existe entre ambas potencias, han resuelto fijar de una manera clara, distinta y positiva, las reglas que deben observar religiosamente en lo venidero, por medio de un tratado de paz, amistad, comercio y navegacion. Con este muy deseable objeto, el Presidente de la Republica de Venezuela ha conferido plenos poderes á Santos Michelena, ciudadano de la misma, y el Presi liamson, a citizen of the said States, and their Chargé d'Affaires to the said Republic, and the President of the Republic of Venezuela on Santos Michelena, a citizen of the said Republic, who, after having exchanged their said full powers, in due and proper form, have agreed to the following articles: ARTICLE 1. There shall be a perfect, firm and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between the United States of America and the Republic of Venezuela, in all the extent of their possessions and territories, and between their people and citizens, respectively, without distinction of persons or places. ARTICLE 2. The United States of America and the Republic of Venezuela, desiring to live in peace and harmony with all the other nations of the earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly with all, engage, mutually, not to grant any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allow ing the same compensation, if the concession was conditional. ARTICLE 3. The two high contracting parties being likewise desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the merce to be com ties. La Republica de Venezuela Favors of comy los Estados de America, de- mon to both par seando vivir en paz y en armonia con las demas naciones de la tierra, por medio de una politica franca é igualmente amistosa con todas, se obligan mutuamente á no conceder favores particulares á otras naciones, con respecto á comercio y navegacion, que no se hagan immediatamente comunes à una ú otra, quien gozarà de los mismos, libremente, si la concesion fuese hecha libremente, ó prestando la misma compensacion, si la concesion fuere condicional. |