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 CONVENTION—MEXICO. FEBRUARY 18, 1889. 1493 Convention between the United States of America and the United mmwiim- States céf Mexico to revive the provisions of the Convention ¢;.;Juty 29, 188, to survey and relocate the boundary line west of t Rio Grande and to extend the time ficed in Article VIII of the said convention. Concluded at Was ington, February 18, 1889; ratifcation advised by the Senate, Marc 26, 1889; ratified by the President of the United States of America, April 30, 1889; ratified by the President of the United States of Jllewico, August 4, 1889; rati£`cationLeatl¢igt‘g’¢$.;nged at Washington, October 12, 1889; proclaimed, BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. · A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention between the United States of America. and mmm. the United States of Mexico, to revive the provisions of the Con- Vol.22,p.9H. vention of July 29, 1882, to surx ey and relocate the existing boundary line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande and to extend the time fixed in Article VIII of the said Convention for the ` completion of the work in- question, was signed by their respective Plempotentiaries at the City of Washington on the eighteenth day · of February, one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine, the original of which Convention, being in the English and Spanish lan. guages, is word for word as follows: Convention between the United Convencion entre los Estados mmm ,0 ,,, States offA§1erica and the Unitled Unigos df América y los Estados gm ¤i¤¤ fw tates o exico, to revive the ni os exicanos, para renovar ' provisions of the Convention of las estipulaciones de la Convenuly 29, 1882, to survey and relo- cion de 29 de Julio de 1882, $10 cate the existing boundary line tiene por objeto reconooer y e- between the two countries west marcar denuevo la linea divisoria of the Rio Grande,' and to extend entre los dos paises, al poniente the time nxed in Article VIII of del Rio Bravo del Norte, y para the said Convention for the com- prorogar el plazo nyado por el pletion of the work in question. Articulo VII de d10 a Conven- Eziop para la conclusion de dichos ra agos. Whereas the provisions of the Por cuanto las prevenciones de mmm Convention between the United la Convencion entre los Estados States of America and the United Unidos de Aniérica y los Estados States of Mexico, signed at Wash- Unidos Mexicanos, firmada en ington on the twenty-ninth of Washington el 29 de Julio de J u ly, onithousancteig thundred 11882, para] reponocgr y demarear ant -two, o survey an e nuevo a inea 1v1soria exisrelbcaitg the existing boundary tente entre los dos paises, al between the two countries west pomente del Rio Bravo del Norte, of] the Rio giranile, sroltzir a; they eaiziiaintg sie rgneren al articulo r te to rtic e o said e ic a onvencion, no so Cbohvention, have not been car- han llevado a cabo, por causa de ried out through delays in the dilaciones ocumdas en el nom-