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 couvmrrxou-Mnxico. MARCH 20, 1905. 1863 Convention between the United States and Memico for the elimina- 1**1*1*011 20-1005- tion of the Bancos in the Rio Grande from the eyfects of Article II of the Treaty of November 12, 1884. Signed at Washington, March 20, 1905; ratification advised by the Senate February 28, 1907; ratiyied by the President March 13, 1907; ratiyied by Mexico M arch 15, 1907; ratijications exchanged at Washington M ay 31, 1907 ; proclaimed June 5, 1907. BY um Pnmsinmmr or mn Uxrmn Srarns or Amnmcn, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention between the United States of America and M¤¤|0¤¤ B0¤¤0· the United States of Mexico, providing for eliminating the bancos in "iimmme. the Rio Grande from the effects of Article II of the Treaty of No- V°'* 2** ’· wm vember 12, 1884, was concluded and si ed by their respective Pleni— potentiaries at Washington on the 20thnday of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, the original of which Convention being in the English and Spanish languages is word for word as follows: \Vhereas, for the purpose of ob- Por cuanto con el objeto de evitar viating the difficulties arising from las diiicultades que resultaban de v01_ 9_ p_ ,26_ the application of Article V of the la aplicacion de los articulos V del Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 'I`ratadodeGuada1upeHidalg0,del dated February 2, 18-18, and Arti- 2 de Febrero de 1848, I del Tra- v01. 10, p. 1032. cle I of the Treaty of December 30, tado del 30 de Diciembre de 1853, 1853, both concluded between the celebradosentre1osEstadosUnidos United States of America and de América y México, dificultades Mexico—difliculties growing out originadas por los frecuentes camof the frequent changes to which bios a que en su cauce estan su`etos the beds of the Rio Grande and los rfos BravoyC0lorado, se firmé Colorado River are subject—-there en \Vashington en 12 de Noviemwas signed in \Vashington on No- bre de 1884 pier los Plenipotencia— vember 12, 1884, by the P1enipo— rios de los stados Unidos y do tentiaries of the United States México, una Convencion que conand Mexico, a convention con- tiene las siguientes estipulataining the following stipula- ciones: tions: "An·ncm: I.-The dividing line “1`RTICUL0 I.——La linea diviso- V0r 2*- P- 1012- shall forever be that described in ria sera siempre la fijada en dicho the aforesaid Treaty and follow Tratado, y seguira el centro del the center of the normal channel canal normal e los citados rios, a. of the rivers named, notwith— pesar de las alteraciones en las standing any alterations in the riberas 6 en el curso de esos rios, banks or in the course of those con tal que dichas alteraciones se rivers, provided that such altera· efectuen por causas naturales tions be effected by natural causes como la corrosion lenta y gradual, through the slow and gradual y el depésito del aluvion. y n6 erosion and deposit of alluvium por el abandono del canal exis-