Gadsden Purchase

A term commonly applied to the territory acquired by the United States from Mexico by treaty of December 30, 1853, known as the Gadsden Treaty. It extended the southern boundary of Arizona south of the Gila river, and extended the southern boundary of New Mexico, adding extensively to those territorlea The treaty gave the United States freedom j of transit for mails, merchandise and troops across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, and abrogated Art. XI of the treaty of Guadalupe < Hidalgo, which bound the United States to prevent Incursions of Indians from the United States Into Mexico and to restore Mexican prisoners captured by such Indians. The boundary line between Mexico and the United States was marked by joint commissioners in 1855 and 1891. The report of the second commission was published in 1899. GAFOL (spelled, also, gabella, gavel). Rent; tax; Interest of money. Rent or customary performance of agricultural services. 8 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 224. Oafol gild. Payment of sudi rent, etc. Oafol land was land liable to tribute or tax; Cowell: or land rented; Saxon Diet. See Taylor, Hist, of Gavelkind pp. 26, 1021; Anc. Laws & Inst, of Eng.; Maitl. Domesd. 44.