...remain within the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall...elected to become citizens of the United States." Argument for Respondent. This article of the treaty gives to the Mexi-\ans then domiciled in California,...

...United States citizenship; those who did not express a desire for change at the end of that time would be considered 'to have elected to become citizens of the United States.' The question which was likely to cause concern in the Virgin Islands was that of commercial policy...

...Mexican citizenship by making a declaration to that effect. Those failing to make such a declaration "shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States." None of the Pueblo Indians elected to retain Mexican citizenship; hence, although some doubted their...

...the wartime residents who had been Mexican citizens and their descendants Article VTJI of the Treaty states: "In the said territories, property of every...Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contrac: shall enjoy with respect to it, guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens...

...please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever. In the said territories, property of every kind now...not established there, shall be inviolably respected [emphasis mine]. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire...

...kind now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected [emphasis mine]. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said properly by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged...

...shall remain in the said territories, after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall...have elected to become citizens of the United States. Article IX then elaborated, with vagueness and confusion, on this question: The Mexicans who, in the...

...treaty. Those who remain in the Territory after the expiration of that year without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall...have elected to become citizens of the United States. . . Anastasio Sandoval did declare his intention within one year to retain his right to Mexican citizenship...

...the land grant, and settlement continued as peace resumed.90 The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo read: In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans now established there shall be inviolately respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all...

...States and, either by election within one year or by continued residence within the United States, they "shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States."31 Article IX of the draft treaty, and subsequent modifications of the article, however, are...