Chamizal Arbitration: United States and Mexico. Minutes of the Meetings of the International Boundary Commission, June 10 and 15, 1911, Containing the Award in the Chamizal Case. Dissenting Opinions of the American and Mexican Commissioners, and the Protest of the Agent of the United States |
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... Banco de Santa Margarita , " an analogous condition existed , and a similar disposition of the case was made . The bancos above referred to were formed by accretions to land on one side of the river , with erosions on the other side ...
... Banco de Santa Margarita , " an analogous condition existed , and a similar disposition of the case was made . The bancos above referred to were formed by accretions to land on one side of the river , with erosions on the other side ...
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... bancos which had been surveyed and described in the report of the consulting engineers . The convention further recites " That the application to these bancos of the principle established in Article II of the Convention of 1884 renders ...
... bancos which had been surveyed and described in the report of the consulting engineers . The convention further recites " That the application to these bancos of the principle established in Article II of the Convention of 1884 renders ...
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... Banco Treaty of 1905 , which adopted the report of the commissioners stating that the changes producing the bancos were due to slow and gradual erosion coupled with avulsion , although it is alleged by the United States that the erosion ...
... Banco Treaty of 1905 , which adopted the report of the commissioners stating that the changes producing the bancos were due to slow and gradual erosion coupled with avulsion , although it is alleged by the United States that the erosion ...
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... Banco Treaty of 1905 again placed an authoritative interpretation upon the words " slow and grad- ual " in the Convention ... bancos had been formed were " owing to the slow and gradual erosion coupled with avulsion . " That the erosive ...
... Banco Treaty of 1905 again placed an authoritative interpretation upon the words " slow and grad- ual " in the Convention ... bancos had been formed were " owing to the slow and gradual erosion coupled with avulsion . " That the erosive ...
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... banco formation were " slow and gradual " within the meaning of the Treaty of 1884 , was so " material to the question to be decided " that if those changes were not " slow and gradual " there would in most instances have been no bancos ...
... banco formation were " slow and gradual " within the meaning of the Treaty of 1884 , was so " material to the question to be decided " that if those changes were not " slow and gradual " there would in most instances have been no bancos ...
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Page 14 - But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty ; and those...
Page 14 - ... to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to its western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila...
Page 15 - The boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river...
Page 14 - ... from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico...
Page 15 - ... north latitude crosses the same, thence due west one hundred miles, thence south to the parallel of 31° 20...
Page 10 - And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four ; Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt.
Page 16 - In consequence, the stipulation in the fifth article of the treaty of Guadalupe upon the boundary line therein described is no longer of any force, wherein it may conflict with that here established, the said line being considered annulled and abolished wherever it may not coincide with the present, and in the same manner remaining in full force where in accordance with the same.
Page 10 - The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, both in the English and Spanish languages, and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this 24th day of June, one thousand nine hundred and ten.
Page 15 - The Mexican Republic agrees to designate the following as her true limits with the United States for the future: Retaining the same dividing line between the two Californias as already defined and established, according to the 5th article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo...
Page 39 - Any other change, wrought by the force of the current whether by the cutting of a new bed, or when there is more than one channel by the deepening of another channel than that which marked the boundary at the time of the survey made under the aforesaid Treaty...