25Ho.
Ex.
Docs.,
24 cong., 1 sess., No. 256, pp. 29, 35. Jackson prob-
ably broached this ex
parte
declaration of "neutral territory" orally to
Mexico so that the matter should not appear too plainly in black and
white in the public records. See Castillo's correspondence with Forsyth,
October, 1835, to March, 1836, in Ibid.,
6-30.
