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 _76 CONVENTION-MEXICO. Novnmnnn 27, 1872. NW- 27.187% Oomzention between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. Revival and fdrther extension of duration of the joint commission for the settlement of elaimsl Uoncluded November 27, 1872; ratification advised by Senate with amendment, March 9, 1873 ;· ratified by President March 10, 1873; ratified by President of Mexico May 19, 1873, rati/ications exchanged at Washington July 17, 1873 ; proclaimed July 24, 1873. · ·BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ’ ‘ ·  A PROCLAMATION. $“;""‘“m°‘ 679 Whereas s convention between the United States of America and the ° ‘“·P· ‘ United States of Mexico, for further extending the time iixed by the convention between the` same parties of the 4th July, 1868, `for the dumtion of the joint commission on the subject of claims, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries, at Washington, on the twenty-seventh day of November last, which convention, after having beenlamended and ratified by the contracting parties, is word for word i as o lows:. Whereas, by the convention con~ Gonsiderando que por la. convencluded between the United States cion celebrada entre la Republics _ 9 and the Mexican Republic on the Mejicana ylos Estados Unidos el4 V°1‘"*P‘°7 ‘ fourth day of July, 1868, certain de Julio de 1868, ciertas reclamaclaims of citizens of the contracting ciones de los ciudadanos de las parparties were submitted to a joint tes coutratantes fueron somctidus 6. commission, whose functions were una comision mixtacuyas funciones to terminate within two years and habian de concluir dentro de dos six months, reckoning from the day aiips y seis meses contados desde el of the first meeting of the commis- dia de la primera reunion de los cosioners; and whereas the functions misionados; que las funciones de la, of the aforesaid joint commission expresada comision mixta fueron ’ were extended, according to the prorogada.s,en virtud de la convenconvcution concluded between the cion celebrada entre las mismas same parties on the nineteenth day partes el 19 de Abril de 1871, por Vol. xvii p.e61. of April, 1871, for ·a term not ex- un término ,que_no pasasedeun aio ceeding one year from the day on oontwdodesde el dia en que debian which they were to terminate ae- terminar con arreglo a la primera cordingto theilrst convention; and couvencion; y por cuanto 6, que es whereas the possibility of said com- dudosa la posibilidad de que dicha mission’s concluding its labors even comision conclnya sus trabajos ann within the period fixed by theafore-’ dentrodel periodo iijndo porla mem said convention of Apriluineteenth, oionada convencion del 19 de Abril 1- . _ 1871, is doubtful: de 1871: ·. t,g"“““°"‘“¥¥ P"` Therefore, the President of the El Presidente de los Estados ° United States of America and the Unidos Mejicanos 3 el Presidente President of the United States of dc los Estados Unidos do América, Mexico, desiring that the term of deseosos de que el término de la the aforementioned commission referida comision sea nuevamente should be again extended, in order prorogado, para llegar {1. este tin to attain this end, have appointed, han nombrado Plenipotenciarios, cl the President of the United States Presidente de los Estados Unidos Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, Mejicanos é. Don Ignacio Mariscal, and the President of the United acreditado ante el Gobierno de los States of Mexico Ignacio Mariscal, Estados Unidos como Enviado Exaccredited to the Government of traordinario yMinistro Plenipotenthe United States asEnvoy Extra- ciario de dichos Estados Unidos ordinary and Minister Plenipoten- Meiicanos, y el Presidente de los tiary of said United States of Estados Unidos a Hamilton Fish,