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 1390 ooNvENT1oN—i1Ex1oo. DECEMBER 5, 1885. mcemnms, 1885. Additional article to the Convention of July 29, 1882, between the United States of America and the nited States of Mexico, providing for an extension of the time fixed in Article VIIL of said Convention for re-sur/veying and re-locating the existing frontier line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande. Ooncluded December 5, 1885; ratijication advised by the Senate with amendment June 21, 1886; ratified by the President of the United States June 23, 1887; ratified by the President of Mexico May 18, 1887 · · ratincations exchanged at Washington Jane 27, 1887; proclaimed Jwne 28, 1887. . BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. . P¤>¤¤¤l>l¤· Wliereas an Additional Article to the Convention concluded on the 29th day of July, 1882, between the United States of America. and the United States of Mexico was concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the said High Contracting Parties on the 5th day of December, 1885, the original of which Additional Article, as amended by the Senate of the United States of America, extends for eighteen months the time fixed in Article VIII. of the Convention aforesaid for re-surveying and re—locating the existing boundary line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande, and, being in the English and Spanish languages, is word for word as follows : Additional article- Additional article to the Conven- Articulo adicionalalaélonvencion tion concluded at Washington concluida en Washington el the tu·e·nty-ninth of July one veintenueve de Julio de mil thousand eight hundred and ochocientos ochentaéy dos entre eighty-two between the United los Estados Unidos e América States of America and the y los Estados Unidos Mexi- United tates of Mexico. canos. mmm. The United States of America Deseando los Estados Unidos de and the United States of Mexico América y los Estados Unidos being desirous to comply with the Mexicanos cumplir con las estipuvon. 22, p. asn. provisions of the onvention, laciones de la Convencion firmada signed at Washington on the en Washington el veintenueve de twenty-ninth of Ju y, one thou- Julio de mil ochocientos ochenta sand eight hundred and eighty- y dos, para reponer demarcar two, to survey and re-locate the nuevamente la actualilinea diviexisting boundary line, between soria entre los dos paises al oeste the two countries west of the Rio del Rio Bravo del Norte, en Grande, which so far as they re- cuanto ellas se reiieren al articulo late to Article VIII. of said Con- octavo de dicha Convencion, que vention, have not been carried out no se ha llevado a efecto con mothrough delays in the appoint- tivo de la dilacion en nombrament of the Commission to under- miento de la Comision ue debe take the work have deemed it ex- emprender ese trabajo, Iran crepedient to agree upon an exten- ido oportuno convenir en proro-