opment, adding to or restricting the customs privileges established by the Decree, the agents will be governed by the instructions received by the department.

17. In case that the colonists or the persons and companies engaged in colonization should abuse the concessions granted, selling or trafficking in any other form with the articles imported free of duty, the agent of the Department of Agriculture and Development will turn the case immediately to the judge of the proper district for his attention, that he may proceed, in conformity with the proper laws, to punish the offender or offenders for smuggling.

18. Upon the receipt of the application mentioned in section 1 of paragraph 10, the colonization agent or bureau, dependent from the Department of Agriculture and Development, will issue the necessary orders to the railway offices for the issuance of second-class fares and for the transportation of the baggage, with a 50% reduction in the rates, from the place of their location in the Republic, to the place of destination, and the necessary orders to the administrator of customs for the importation, free of duty, of the articles and animals specified in the Decree of January 27, 1921.

19. The colonization agents of the Department of Agriculture and Development will keep a record of the following:

I. The progressive number of the applications received.

II. The date of their presentation.

III. The general information of the colonists, names and number of the persons constituting their families, if any, and the colony of their destination. IV. The date of the granting of the application.

V. Specific information of the articles, animals. etc., which each colonist is permitted to import.

VI. The name of the Custom House where the importation is made.

VII. The name of the person or company authorized to colonize, if the entrance of the colonists is effected through either.

20. Of the contents of the above record, the agents will send a monthly report, in triplicate, to the Bureau of Colonization of the Department of Agriculture and Development.

21. In each case, the colonization agents of the Department of Agriculture and Development will notify the department of the applications received and of their results, with a monthly report of the same and complete and specified information as to the articles imported by the colonists during the month.

22. The Bureau of Colonization and the agents of the Department of Agriculture and Development will keep a record of the colonies established in privately-owned lands and of the colonists established in each of them.

23. In doubtful cases or in cases where no provision is made herein which may confront the agents of the Department of Agriculture and Development in the performance of their duties, if the case in question does not come within the jurisdiction of custom houses, the agents will consult with this department through the quickest means of communication according to the urgency of the case. Doubtful cases or where no provision is made herein which fall within the jurisdiction of the custom houses, will be disposed of in conformity with the general custom's regulations by the agents of this department and the proper customs administrator, notifying, in all cases, this department in the matter.

In compliance of which I order this to be printed, published, and circulated. Given at the Palace of the Federal Executive Power of Mexico, on the twenty-second day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

The Constitutional President,

A. OBREGON.

The Secretary of Agriculture and Development,

Effective Suffrage, No Re-election.

A. I. VILLARREAL.

Mexico, May 2, 1921-By order of the Secretary, J. I. LUGO. Under Seo

retary.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

Form No. 1

Petition number....for acceptance as settler in the United States of Mexico. To the Mexican Consul....

City.

Country.

The undersigned. ..in his own name and in that of his family,-list of whom appears in the back of this page-being desirous of entering the United States of Mexico as colonist that he might enjoy the franchises which the laws of the country grant to settlers, hereby requests you to issue the certificate of identity necessary to be considered as such. To that effect he hereby swears to submit himself to the Mexican laws in all actions that he may perform as settler; and further states that he has sufficient agricultural knowledge, that he has never served judicial penalties and that his occupation up to......

was.....

In proof of which he hereby encloses a certificate of good conduct and his passport issued by....

The undersigned, Consul for Mexico at.........certifies that Mr..... appeared before this Consulate declaring his intentions of going to the United States of Mexico as settler, solemnly swearing, in order to become such, to submit himself to the laws of the country and to adjust all his acts to the said laws after he has become a settler, and having duly proved before this Consulate his good conduct and capacity for devoting himself to agricultural pursuits and having also showed a passport issued by...... in compliance with Article 7th of the corresponding regulations, this Consulate in accordance with the said regulations issues the present Certificate.

Mr.........is accompanied by the persons whose names appear on the back of this page and who are all members of his family. Issued at......on the...... of the month of..

Seal of the Consulate.

.192...

The Consul.

APPENDIX VI

OIL PRODUCTION 1921.

(Preliminary Estimate)

The total shipments for 1921 were 191,418,421.56 barrels. The shipments for the year by companies were as follows:

Huasteca Petroleum Company, 28,711,456.63 barrels; Transcontinental Petroleum Company, 25,494,174.22; Mexican Aguila (Eagle) Oil Company, 25,459,220; Mexican Gulf Oil Company, 13,722,034.15; Agwi Oil Company, 12,125,992.67; Texas Company, 11,263,412.54; International Petroleum Company, 9,994,378.36; Island Oil and Transport Company, 8,895,955.60; Corona Oil Company, 8,548,411.96; Freeport and Mexican Fuel Oil, 8,113,551.42; Cortez Fuel and Oil Corporation, 8,109,121.56; East Coast Oil Company, 5,681,641.86; Penn Mex Fuel Company, 3,582,722.74; New England Fuel Oil Company, 2,563,738.84; Pierce Oil Corporation, 1,766,098.48; National Oil Company, 1,551,491.18; Continental Mexican Petroleum Company, 1,467,293.53; National Petroleum Company, 1,374,016.56; Interocean Oil Company, 821,617.73; U. S. Mex. Oil Corporation, 664,525.60; Tal Vez Oil Company, 480,889.24; Cochrane and Harper, 165,055.45; Cosmos Compania Mexicana de Petroleo, 37,757.

APPENDIX VII

TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO1

1828.a

TREATY OF LIMITS.

Concluded January 12, 1828; ratification advised by the Senate April 4, 1832; ratified by the President April 5, 1832; ratifications exchanged April 5, 1832; proclaimed April 5, 1832.

I. Boundary.

II. Boundary line.

ARTICLES.

III. Commissioners.
IV. Ratification.

The limits of the United States of America with the bordering territories of Mexico having been fixed and designated by a solemn treaty, concluded and signed at Washington on the twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Government of the United States of America on the one part, and of that of Spain on the other; and whereas the said treaty having been sanctioned at a period when Mexico constituted a part of the Spanish monarchy, it is deemed necessary now to confirm the validity of the aforesaid treaty of limits, regarding it as still in force and binding between the United States of America and the United Mexican States:

With this intention, the President of the United States of America has appointed Joel Roberts Poinsett their Plenipotentiary, and the President of the United Mexican States their Excellencies Sebastian Camacho and José Ygnacio Esteva;

And the said Plenipotentiaries, having exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

The dividing limits of the respective bordering territories of the United States of America and of the United Mexican States being the same as were agreed and fixed upon by the above-mentioned treaty of Washington, concluded and signed on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the two high contracting parties will proceed forthwith to carry into full effect the third and fourth articles of said treaty, which are herein recited, as follows:

ARTICLE II.

The boundary line between the two countries west of the Mississippi shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea, continuing north along the western bank of that river to the thirty-second degree of latitude; thence by a line due north to the degree of latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Natchitoches, or Red River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude one hundred west from London and twenty-three from Washington; then crossing the said Red River, and running thence by a line due north to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude forty-two north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, 1 Reprinted from Malloy, Treaties and Conventions, I, 1082-1205.

aThe commission referred to in this treaty was never appointed. The accession of Texas and the war between the United States and Mexico rendered the treaty inoperative.

to the South Sea; the whole being as laid down in Melish's map of the United States, published at Philadelphia, improved to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred eighteen. But if the source of the Arkansas River shall be found to fall north or south of latitude forty-two, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude forty-two, and thence, along the said parallel, to the South Sea, all the islands in the Sabine, and the said Red and Arkansas Rivers, throughout the course thus described, to belong to the United States of America; but the use of the waters and the navigation of the Sabine to the sea, and of the said rivers Roxo and Arkansas, throughout the extent of the said boundary on their respective banks, shall be common to the respective inhabitants of both nations.

The two high contracting parties agree to cede and renounce all their rights, claims, and pretensions to the territories described by the said line; that is to say, the United States hereby cede to His Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever, all their rights, claims, and pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the above-described line; and, in like manner, His Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights, claims, and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line; and, for himself, his heirs, and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories forever.

ARTICLE III.

To fix this line with more precision and to place the landmarks which shall designate exactly the limits of both nations, each of the contracting parties shall appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who shall meet before the termination of one year from the date of the ratification of this treaty, at Natchitoches, on the Red River, and proceed to run and mark the said line, from the mouth of the Sabine to the Red River, and from the Red River to the river Arkansas, and to ascertain the latitude of the source of the said river Arkansas, in conformity to what is above agreed upon and stipulated, and the line of latitude forty-two to the South Sea. They shall make out plans and keep journals of their proceedings; and the result agreed upon by them shall be considered as part of this treaty, and shall have the same force as if it were inserted therein. The two Governments will amicably agree respecting the necessary articles to be furnished to those persons, and also as to their respective escorts, should such be deemed necessary.

ARTICLE IV.

The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, within the term of four months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed the same and have hereunto affixed our respective seals.

Done at Mexico this twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, and in the eighth of that of the United Mexican States.

[SEAL.]

[SEAL.] [SEAL.]

J. R. POINSETT.
S. CAMACHO.
J. Y. ESTEva.

1831.a TREATY OF LIMITS.

Concluded April 5, 1831; ratification advised by the Senate April 4, 1832; ratified by the President April 5, 1832; ratifications exchanged April 5, 1832; proclaimed April 5, 1832.

The time having elapsed which was stipulated for the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of limits between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed in Mexico on the twelfth day of January, aThis extension treaty expired with the treaty of 1828.