to proceed to make a domiciliary visit to, or a search of, any such buildings and premises, or to examine or inspect books, papers or accounts, except under the conditions and with the forms prescribed by the laws, ordinances and regulations for nationals. ARTICLE IV There shall be between the territories of the two High Contracting Parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties, equally with the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, shall have liberty freely to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports and rivers, in the territories of the other which are or may be opened to foreign ARTICLE V commerce. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of either of the two High Contracting Parties of any article of the growth, produce or manufacture of the territories of the Contracting Parties, than are, or shall be, payable on the like article of any other foreign country; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories of either of the Contracting Parties on the exportation of any article to the territories of the other than such as are, or shall be, payable on the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the importation or exportation of any article of the growth, produce or manufacture of the territories of either of the Contracting Parties to or from the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the like article of any other foreign country. The last prohibition is not, however, applicable to prohibitions or restrictions maintained or imposed as sanitary measures or for purposes of protecting animals and useful plants. ARTICLE VI The citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territories of the other exemption from all transit duties and a perfect equality of treatment in all that relates to warehousing, bounties, facilities and drawbacks. ARTICLE VII Merchant vessels navigating under the flag of the United States or that of Mexico and carrying the papers required by their national laws to prove their nationality shall in Mexico and in the United States be deemed to be vessels of the United States or of Mexico, respectively. ARTICLE VIII No duties of tonnage, harbor, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties of whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or establishments of any kind. shall be imposed in the ports of the territories of either country upon the vessels of the other, which shall not equally, under the same conditions, be imposed on national vessels in general, or on vessels of the most favored nation. Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the respective vessels from whatever place they may arrive and whatever may be their place of destination. ARTICLE IX The coasting trade of the High Contracting Parties is excepted from the provisions of the present Treaty and shall be regulated according to the laws of the United States and Mexico, respectively. It is, however, understood that the citizens of either Contracting Party shall enjoy in this respect most-favored-nation treatment in the territories of the other. A vessel of one of the Contracting Parties, laden in a foreign country with cargo destined for two or more ports of entry in the territories of the other, may discharge a portion of her cargo at one of the said ports, and, continuing her voyage to the other port or ports of destination, there discharge the remainder of her cargo, subject always to the laws, tariffs and customs regulations of the country of destination; and, in like manner and under the same reservation, the vessels of one of the Contracting Parties shall be permitted to load at several ports of the other for the same outward voyages. ARTICLE X Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties agree that, in all that concerns commerce and navigation, any privilege, favor or immunity which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the citizens of any other State shall be extended to the citizens of the other Contracting Party gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other State shall have been gratuitous, and on the same or equivalent conditions, if the concession shall have been conditional. ARTICLE XI Each of the High Contracting Parties may appoint consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and other consular officers or agents to reside in the towns and ports of the territories and possessions of the other where similar officers of other powers are permitted to reside. 115367-36-vol. II- -26 Such consular officers and agents, however, shall not enter upon their functions until they shall have been approved and admitted by the Government to which they are sent. They shall be entitled to exercise all the powers and enjoy all the honors, privileges, exemptions, and immunities of every kind which are, or may be, accorded to consular officers of the most favored nation. ARTICLE XII In case of the death of any citizen of Mexico in the United States or of any citizen of the United States in Mexico without having in the country of his deccase any known heirs or testamentary executors by him appointed, the competent local authorities shall at once inform the nearest consular officer of the nation to which the deceased belonged, in order that the necessary information may be immediately forwarded to parties interested. In the event of any citizens of either of the High Contracting Parties dying without will or testament, in the territory of the other contracting party, the consul general, consul, vice consul, or other consular officer or agent of the nation to which the deceased belonged, or, in his absence, the representative of such consul general, consul, vice consul, or other consular officer or agent shall, so far as the laws of each country will permit and pending the appointment of an administrator and until letters of administration have been granted, take charge of the personal property left by the deceased for the benefit of his lawful heirs and creditors. ARTICLE XIII The citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territories of the other the same protection as native citizens in regard to patents, trade-marks and designs, upon fulfillment of the formalities prescribed by law. ARTICLE XIV The United Mexican States recognize their pecuniary responsibility for all damage arising from death of, or injuries to persons, or damage to, or destruction of, property, of American citizens, corporations, companies, associations or private individuals, when such damages were occasioned by the acts of representatives of the United Mexican States or by acts of persons engaged in brigandage or in insurrection or revolution against the Mexican Government. The High Contracting Parties undertake to conclude, within six months from the date of signature of the present treaty, a convention for the settlement of all claims, on the one hand, of corporations, companies or private individuals, citizens of the United States, for pecuniary loss or damage, including loss or damage resulting from injuries to any company or association, foreign or domestic, in which they are or have been interested, against the United Mexican States, and, on the other hand, of all claims or [of] corporations, companies or private individuals, citizens of Mexico, for pecuniary loss or damage, including loss or damage resulting from injuries to any company or association in which they are interested, against the United States. ARTICLE XV The High Contracting Parties undertake to conclude within six months from the date of signature of the present Treaty a further convention for the adjustment of the differences which have arisen between them as to the international title to the so-called Chamizal tract which was the subject of the Convention of June 24, 1910, and the supplemental Protocol of December 5, 1910. For this purpose they will resume negotiations at the precise point where they were interrupted in the month of March, 1913.' ARTICLE XVI The High Contracting Parties agree that within six months after the exchange of ratifications of the present treaty they will appoint a Commission to be composed of one commissioner designated by each party which shall forthwith proceed to study questions relating to the equitable distribution of the boundary waters. This Commission shall, within one year after its organization, submit to the respective governments a report with recommendations which shall serve as the basis for future negotiations on that subject. Each government will bear the expense of the commissioner designated by it. ARTICLE XVII The present Treaty shall remain in force for the term of six years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, and if six months before the expiration of that period neither party shall have notified the other of its intention of reforming any of, or all, the Articles of the Treaty, or of arresting the operation of the Treaty, it shall remain binding beyond that time until six months from the time that one of the Parties notifies the other of its intention of proceeding to reform it or to terminate it; provided, however, that the termination of this treaty as hereinbefore provided, shall not affect any property rights recognized by this Treaty, or which may have been acquired prior to such termination. Foreign Relations, 1911, pp. 565 and 569, respectively. ARTICLE XVIII The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutions. The ratifications of this Treaty shall be exchanged in Washington as soon as practicable, and it shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals. The Chargé in Mexico (Summerlin) to the Secretary of State No. 3929 MEXICO, June 3, 1921. [Received June 16.] SIR: In confirmation of my confidential telegram No. 110, May 27, 6 p.m., I have the honor to report that I was received by General Obregon, quite informally, at Chapultepec Castle at four-thirty last Friday afternoon, at which time I placed in his hands a copy, in English, of the proposed Treaty of Amity and Commerce. General Obregon received me most cordially, and as stated in my telegram, no one else was present during the interview. After the usual preliminary greetings, I thanked the General for his kindness in tendering me a private car at Nuevo Laredo and explained that I had already engaged satisfactory and comfortable accommodations. I began by stating that the friendliest feeling existed in the Department, and elsewhere in the United States, for him, and I told him of your sincere hope that he would be able to establish a stable and permanent government in Mexico. I said that my Government considered that the time had arrived for a full, complete and lasting understanding, once for all time, with Mexico, irrespective and independent of political or other changes in either country, and that such a permanent understanding required previous arrangements for the settlement of all important questions and difficulties between the two countries. I stated that the Department had made a careful study of his public statements, since the issuance of his manifesto, in June, 1918 [1919], when he announced his candidacy for the presidency, those made prior to his election, and especially those contained in the formal statements made by him through the Foreign Office on April 3rd [2d] last; 10 that partly with these state 8 Not printed. 9 May 27. |