El Ciudadano Luis Gonzaga Vieyra, Coronel Retirado y Gobernador del Departamento de Mexico. Por la Primera Secretaria de Estado Se Me Ha Dirigido con Fecha 18 del Proximo Pasado Junio, el Decreto Siguiente... [caption title]

Toluca: June 18, 1836. Very good plus.. Large folio broadside, 17 x 12.25 inches, printed in two columns in Spanish and English. Old folds, small stain near beginning of text, otherwise bright and clean. An exceedingly rare Toluca bando printing of the long-lingering 1828 Treaty of Limits between the United States and Mexico which finally sought to establish the boundary line between the two countries. The main text of the document is printed in two columns, in Spanish in the left column and English on the right. The main text is supplemented with an opening paragraph and several paragraphs following, all in Spanish. The broadside was intended to be displayed to the public in Toluca, Mexico to keep the populace informed of the progress of the treaty.

"Under the third article of the Treaty of January 12, 1828, commissioners were to meet at Natchitoches within one year after the ratification of the treaty to run the boundary from the mouth of the Sabine to the Red River and from the Red River to the Arkansas. Because of the delay in exchange of ratifications, the treaty did not become effective until April 5, 1832, and there was then a further delay in the appointment of commissioners, making necessary a new article of the treaty. The text of this new article, but not of the ratifications, was sent to Congress by this Message. It appears...that it was concluded on April 3, 1835, ratified by Mexico, April 5, 1835, and by the United States on February 2, 1836. The Washington DC edition says that the ratifications were exchanged and the treaty became effective April 21, 1836. The Mexico City edition gives the date as April 20. As the Texans had been victorious at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, the treaty was meaningless as far as Texas boundaries were concerned" - Streeter.

"The treaty, made between Anthony Butler and Gutierrez de Estrada, reaffirms the defunct provisions of the treaty of 1828 with respect to the boundary question. It is stipulated that commissioners and surveyors be appointed within one year to fix the 'true' dividing line and boundary between the two Nations, and to survey, and place land marks which shall designate exactly the limits of both Nations...and shall meet at Natchitoches on the Red River and proceed to run and mark the said line from the mouth of the Sabine to River Arkansas...and the line of latitude 42 to the South Sea [Pacific Ocean].... The bandos of documents of this nature are even rarer than the official publications" - Eberstadt.

Streeter locates just two copies of the Mexico City printing of this work, issued as a four-page pamphlet. Eberstadt listed a Mexico City bando of the same work in their legendary catalogue 162. OCLC reports just a single copy of the present work, at Yale.
Streeter 1257a (ref). Eberstadt 162:854 (ref).