The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966 Page: 189
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General Arthur G. Wavell: A Soldier of Fortune
representatives, Mexico was willing to negotiate the boundary
question. In 1828, after each country had made proposals to
change the line to its advantage, work was started on a treaty
which would confirm the 1819 document, and adopt its line as
the boundary between the United States and Mexico. On Jan-
uary 12, 1828, the new treaty was signed.?4 A four months time
limit was put on the exchange of ratifications, however, and the
Mexican government was so slow in getting to the business of
ratifying the treaty that it reached Washington too late. A new
article was approved on April 5, 1831, extending the time for
ratification to one year from that date. The treaty was finally
proclaimed on April 5, 1832." Thus at the time Milam sur-
veyed Wavell's grant, there was no formal recognition of the
boundary line between Texas and the United States.
There had been up to that time a rather vague idea of the
boundary from the point the Sabine crossed the 32nd parallel to
the Red River. The Mexican government evidently thought the
line would intersect the Red River farther east than it actually
did, while the United States officials felt the intersection would
be west of where it eventually was proved to be. In 1829, a bill
to clarify the Arkansas boundary was introduced into the United
State Congress, but died in the senate after passage by the house.""
In 1830, there was no way of proving which of the two nations
had legal jurisdiction over the territory in which Wavell's colony
was located-along the Red River in the region where it was
joined by the Sulphur Fork. In that year, Colonel Peter Ellis
Bean was ordered by General Terin:
to reconnoiter the situation of the savages and to prevent the
introduction of adventurers in and about Punta Pacana [Pecan
Point]. In the execution of this order, he appears to have gone
into territory claimed by Arkansas and to have written a note to
John Pope, governor of the territory, asking by what authority
Arkansas claimed jurisdiction over Miller County, alleging that it
was entirely beyond the boundary of the United States.97
"Ibid., 84.
"Bunyan H. Andrew, "Some Queries Concerning the Texas-Louisiana Sabine
Boundary," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LIII, 3n.
g"John Hugh Reynolds, "The Western Boundary of Arkansas," Publications of the
Arkansas Historical Society, II, 231-232.
7Ibid.189
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