United States and Mexican Boundary Commission information
1847 Dirsturnell map of the US and Mexico1857 map of Rio Grande/Rio Bravo border of the US and Mexico1893 map showing surveys of Colorado River by both the US and the Mexican Boundary Commissions
The Joint United States and Mexican Boundary Commission was stipulated by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican–American War in 1848. The Joint Commission was required to carefully survey and mark the new boundary which had only been imprecisely described in the treaty between the two countries.[1]
Each country appointed a commissioner and a surveyor to jointly lead the project and the group met for the first time in San Diego on July 6, 1849. The survey was expected to take only a year, but the effort was poorly funded and fraught with internal dissension and personnel turnover, especially within the American contingent. In addition, neither country had appreciated the extremely difficult terrain through which the survey would be conducted.[1][2]
The 1847 Dirsturnell map accompanied the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo[3]
There were discrepancies in the map and in the Spring of 1851 the Commissioners negotiated the Bartlett-García Conde Compromise to end the dispute over where the southern border of New Mexico would be.[4] The Compromise was rejected by the US Senate however, and a new boundary limit had to be negotiated. The Gadsden Purchase and negotiation determined that new boundary.
John Russell Bartlett replaced John C. Frémont as the US Boundary Commissioner on June 15, 1850.[5]
The Mexican Commissioner was Pedro García Conde.
List of US Boundary Commissioners
1. Ambrose Hundley Sevier 1848 (Died before confirmed by Senate)
2. John B. Weller 1849-1850
3. John C. Fremont February 1850 appointed but resigned to serve as senator in California
4. William H. Emory (interim), the only of the US Commissioners who had previous experience in "surveying, diplomacy, or organizing and carrying out a major expedition"[6]
5. John Russell Bartlett June 1850 - May 1886
List of US Boundary Surveyors
Andrew B. Gray 1849-
Amiel Weeks Whipple 1851
Arthur Carl Victor Schott
James Radziminski
Joseph Smith Harris and G. Clinton Gardner
List of Mexican Boundary Commissioners
Pedro Garcia Conde 1849 - December 1851 (died)
José Salazar Ylarregui 1851
List of Mexican Surveyors
José Salazar Ylarregui 1849 - 1851
Francisco Jiménez 1852-1853
Agustín Díaz
^ abHewitt, Harry P. (15 June 2010). "Mexican-United States Boundary Commission". Handbook of Texas Online.
^Werne, Joseph Richard (2007). The imaginary line : a history of the United States and Mexican boundary survey, 1848-1857. Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press. ISBN 978-0-87565-338-9. OCLC 71200775.
^"Monuments, Manifest Destiny, and Mexico". National Archives. 15 August 2016.
^KOHOUT, MARTIN DONELL (12 June 2010). "BARTLETT-GARCIA CONDE COMPROMISE". tshaonline.org.
^HEWITT, HARRY P. (15 June 2010). "MEXICAN-UNITED STATES BOUNDARY COMMISSION". tshaonline.org.
^John, Rachel St (25 November 2012). Line in the Sand. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691156132.
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