EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 3, 1884_.
_To the Senate of the United States:_
I herewith transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to
its ratification, a convention between the United States of America and
the United States of Mexico, touching the boundary line between the two
countries where it follows the bed of the Rio Grande and the Rio Gila,
concluded November 12, 1884, and add that the convention is in
accordance with an opinion of the Hon. Caleb Cushing, Attorney-General,
dated November 11, 1856. (See Opinions of Attorneys-General, Vol. XIII,
p. 175, "Arcifinious boundaries.")