::-ides, is this: In making use of the expression quoted above, does the Executive of these United Stales perchance intend lo convey the idea, that he recognises limits which are not those expressly · determined in the second article of the treaty between the two countries? I think, sir, you will see, that I am induced to put this question by the interest which I take in preventing any equivocal or false interpretation which might lead lo a disturbance of the friendly relations between Lhe two Governments.
I am, sir, with due respect, Your most obedient servant, J. M. De Castillo Y Lanzas.
To Mr. John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United States. (1447]
[COS CAPITULATION]
Capitulation Entered Into By General Martin Perfecto De Cos, Of The Permanent Troops, And General Edward Burleson, Of The Co- lonial Troaps Of Texas. Being desirous of preventing the further effusion of blood and the ravages of civil war, have agreed on the following stipulations: 1st. That General Cos and his officers retire with their arms and private property into the interior of the republic under parole of honor; and that they will not in any way oppose the reestablishment of the federal constitution of 1824. 2d. That the one hundred infantry lately arrived with the convicts, the remnant of the battalion of Morelos, and the cavalry, retire with the General, taking their arms, and ten rounds of cartridges for their muskets. 3d. That the General take the convicts brought by Colonel Ugartechea beyond the Rio Grande. 4th. That it is discretionary with the troops to follow their General, remain, or go to such point as they may deem proper; but in case they should all or any of them separate, they are lo have their arms, etc. 5th. That all the public property, money, arms, and
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