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 CONVENTION—MEXICO—BOUNDABY. AUGUST 24, 1894. 1213 Convention between the United States `of Ameriea and the United States A¤z¤¤* 2¢· 1894- of Mexico, to extend further for two years from October 11, 1894, the period jized by Article VIII of the Convention of July 29, 1882, providing for an international boundary survey to relocate the existing , frontier line west of the Rio Grande. Concluded at Washington, August 24, 1894; ratification advised by the Senate, August 27, 1894; ratified by the President of the United States, September 1, 1894; ratified by the President of Mexico, October 3, 1894; ratijieations exchanged at Washington, October 11, 1894; proclaimed, October 18, 1894. BY 1-nn Pnnsmnsr or run Umrnn Scmuns on Amnucn A PROCLAMATION. VVhereas, a Convention between the United States of America and rmmms. the United States of Mexico, further extending for two years from October 11, 1894, the period iixed by Article VIH of the Convention of V0]-WP-m July 29, 1882, between those two countries, providing for an international boundary survey to relocate the existing frontier line between them west of the Rio Grande, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at the city of Washington on the 24th day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety four, which Convention is word for word as follows :— Whereas the United States of Deseando los Estados Unidos de <>¤¤¢¤w¤i¤z1>¤r¤•¤· America and the United States of América y los Estados Unidos Me- Mexico desire to comply fully with xicanos dar pleno cumplimiento a the provisions of the Convention las estipulaciones de la Convencion concluded and signed at Washing- concluida y nrmada en Washingington, July 29, 1882, providing ton el 29 de Julio de 1882 que profor an international boundary sur- veyo a un reconocimiento de la vey to relocate the existing fron- frontera internacionalafin de martier line between the two countries car de nuevo la linea divisoria enwest of the Rio Grande; tre los dos paises al Oeste del Rio Bravo del Norte; And whereas the time fixed by Y expirando el 11 de Octubre Article VIII of that Convention de 1894 el plazo iijado por el Aribr the termination of the labors ticulo VIII de esa Convencion of the International Boundary para el término de los trabaios de Commission, as extended by Arti· la Comision Internacional de Licle II of the Convention concluded mites, con la prorroga convenida and signed between the two high por el Articulo II de la Convencion contracting parties February 18, concluida y iirmada entre las dos 1889, will expire October 11, 1894; Altas Partes Contratantes el 18 de Febrero de 1889, And whereas the two high con- Y considerando conveniente las tracting parties deem it expedient dos Altas Partes Contratantes to agree upon a further extension prorrogar de nuevo el plazo estiof the time stipulated in Article II pulado en el Articulo II de la of the Convention aforesaid, to the Convencion citada, a fin de que la end that the International Bound- Comision Internacional de Limites ary Commission may be enabled pueda terminar sus trabajos y rento finish all its work and so render dir un informe acompanado de un areportaccompanied byaiinal map plano final de la topograiia de