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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... retroactive effect so as to apply to any changes which had previously occurred . Reference was made to a number of well - known authorities establishing the proposition that laws and treaties are not usually deemed to be retrospective ...
... retroactive effect so as to apply to any changes which had previously occurred . Reference was made to a number of well - known authorities establishing the proposition that laws and treaties are not usually deemed to be retrospective ...
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... retroactive effect , but could only be applied to such cases as might occur subsequently . On the other hand , the President of Mexico , in his message of April , 1891 24 CHAMIZAL ARBITRATION : MINUTES OF JUNE 10 , 1911 .
... retroactive effect , but could only be applied to such cases as might occur subsequently . On the other hand , the President of Mexico , in his message of April , 1891 24 CHAMIZAL ARBITRATION : MINUTES OF JUNE 10 , 1911 .
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... retroactive by the high contracting parties . ( Mr. Commissioner Puga dissents from this holding for the rea- sons set forth in his subjoined opinion . ) PRESCRIPTION . In the countercase of the United States , the contention is ad ...
... retroactive by the high contracting parties . ( Mr. Commissioner Puga dissents from this holding for the rea- sons set forth in his subjoined opinion . ) PRESCRIPTION . In the countercase of the United States , the contention is ad ...
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... retroactive , and in the finding of the Presiding Com- missioner and the Mexican Commissioner to the effect that the United States has not established a title to the Chamizal tract by prescription . He is compelled to dissent in toto ...
... retroactive , and in the finding of the Presiding Com- missioner and the Mexican Commissioner to the effect that the United States has not established a title to the Chamizal tract by prescription . He is compelled to dissent in toto ...
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... retroactive and therefore in general applicable to this case . While the Convention of 1884 purports to cover all changes that may occur in the course of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado where they constitute a boundary between the ...
... retroactive and therefore in general applicable to this case . While the Convention of 1884 purports to cover all changes that may occur in the course of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado where they constitute a boundary between the ...
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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...