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To: rustbucket
Does this mean that Mexico still owns their government buildings in Texas from the pre-1836 period? Who owns the buildings and forts built by Spain before the Mexican Revolution?

Of course not, because you are ignoring the fact that ownership of those passed to Texas, as agreed to by Texas AND Mexico when peace was signed between the two in 1845. The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, signed between the U.S. and Mexico in 1848 settled who owned what when Texas was annexed. So you can put your passport away.

1,885 posted on 09/25/2004 8:29:41 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Of course not, because you are ignoring the fact that ownership of those passed to Texas, as agreed to by Texas AND Mexico when peace was signed between the two in 1845. The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, signed between the U.S. and Mexico in 1848 settled who owned what when Texas was annexed. So you can put your passport away.

The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo says the forts within Mexico (i.e., the Mexico as defined by the treaty) that were occupied by US forces should be returned to Mexican control. It doesn't mention forts and presidios located within what the US considered the US, at least not that I spotted anyway.

The treaty does pay Mexico for the westward extension of the US boundary into present day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, but not for what you seem to conclude was Mexican property in the US.

Perhaps the Presidio was covered by the payment to Mexican citizens made by the US under the treaty. Was any claim ever made for the Presidio under the terms of the treaty? Not that I can find in an extensive writeup on the ownership of the Presidio (Source).

The Republic of Texas gave the Presidio la Bahia to the town of Goliad in 1844. The title later passed to the Catholic Church in 1855.

Besides, Spain built the Presidio la Bahia, not Mexico. I haven't looked it up, but did Spain give title to that building to Mexico as a result of the Mexican Revolution?

1,888 posted on 09/25/2004 9:22:28 AM PDT by rustbucket
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