TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. Report of agent, with English translation of award.......

2. Pleadings:

(a) Memorial of the United States

(b) Answer of Mexico in Spanish and translation into French, prepared

by the Mexican agent.

(c) Replication of the United States, with exhibits consisting of English

translation of Mexican answer with notes, résumé of de Rada liti-

gation, statement as to Indian populations of Lower California, and

copy of deed of Ciénega del Pastor...

(d) Conclusions (rejoinder on behalf of Mexico).

3. Appendix to record, containing copies of treaties between the United States

and Mexico, rules of procedure before the mixed commission of 1868 and

The Hague Peace Convention of 1899, with index..

4. Briefs submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration on behalf of the

United States: a

(a) Statement and brief of agent and counsel of the United States..

(b) Brief of Senator William M. Stewart and Mr. C. J. Kappler..

(c) Brief of Messrs. Doyle & Doyle...

197

245.

262

(d) Brief of Mr. Garret W. McEnerney.

283

(e) Supplemental brief of Messrs. Doyle & Doyle. (This came too late

for formal submission to the tribunal)

335

5. Exhibits submitted by the United States:

(a) Laws of Mexico relating to the Pious Fund

343

(b) Translation of extracts referred to in the brief history of the Pious

Fund of the Californias, and to be found on pages 187-221 of the

record in the case of Alemany v. Mexico..

349

(c) Powers of attorney from the bishops of Sacramento and Monterey to

the archbishop of San Francisco

374

(d) Proof of succession of the Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan, archbishop

of San Francisco..

377

(e) Proof of succession of the Right Rev. George Montgomery, Roman

Catholic bishop of Monterey

387

(f) Deposition of the Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan, dated July 24,

1902.

(g) Affidavit of Mr. John T. Doyle, dated August 26, 1902, with exhibits..

(h) Affidavit of the Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan, archbishop of San

Francisco, dated September 16, 1902

(i) Answer to Mexican call for discovery with relation to the Indian

populations of California..

398

399

421

425

Mexican call for discovery, dated August 12, 1902, and supplemental

affidavit of the Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan with relation thereto.

Letter of the Mexican legation at Rome to the Holy See, dated April 6,

1840, and affidavit of the Most Rev. Patrick W. Riordan with rela-

tion thereto

433

435

a No briefs were submitted on behalf of Mexico, except the printed argument pre-

pared by the Mexican agent and embodied in the record of proceedings, commencing

on page 252.

The exhibits noted herein include all presented by the United States, except

maps, of which there were two, one being copy of the map attached to the treaty of

Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the other a map showing the Indian reservations of the

United States. No exhibit was submitted by Mexico, except the Pleito de Rada, a

book of about 1,000 pages, a summary of the contents of which is to be found as

Exhibit B, on page 37 et seq. of the replication of the United States, and here found

at page 83.

5. Exhibits submitted by the United States-Continued.

(1) Papal bulls relating to the bishopric of California...

(m) Extracts and translations from "Noticias de Californias," etc..

(n) Translation of motion and arguments of Señor Avila, not submitted to

the tribunal, but inserted to render more complete the record of

the former case of Alemany v. Mexico...

6. Record of the proceedings before the Permanent Court of Arbitration under

The Hague Convention of 1899 in the matter of the Pious Fund of

the Californias, including copy of the official minutes, or procès-

verbaux, with index and table of citations a

439

448

450

502

a All of the arguments delivered before the tribunal were revised by the speakers,
save that as to a small part of Mr. Pardo's, the Mexican agent, he unfortunately
lacked opportunity of revision, and some errors may exist therein.

PART I.

Report of agent, with English translation of the award.