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 1864 CONVENTION--MEXICO. MARCH 20, 1905. and not by the abandonment of tente del rio y la apertura de uno an existing river bed and the nuevo. opening of a new one. . _ "Anr1cLn II.- Any other “.A.RTICUI»0 II.——Cualqu1era otro change, wrought by the force of cambio ocasionado por la fuerza the current whether by the cut- de la corriente, ya sea abriendo ting of a new bed, or when there un nuevo canal, 6 en donde haya is more than one channel by the mas de uno, haciendo mas prodeepening of another channel fundo otro canal que no sea el que H than that which marked the' se marc6 como parte de la linea boundary at the time of the sur- divisoria al tiempo del reconocivey made under the aforesaid miento hecho conforme ta dicho _ Treaty, shall produce no change Tratado, no producira alteracion in the dividing line as Hxed by alguna en la linea divisoria tal the surveys of the International como ifué Hjada por los reconoci- Boundary Commissions in 1852, mientos de la Comision Internabut the line then fixed shall con- cional de Limites en 1852; pero tinue to follow the middle of the la linea fijada entonces, seguira original channel bed, even though siendo el centro del canal orithis should become wholly dry or ginal, aun cuando éste llegare a · be obstructed by deposits." secarse del todo, 6 a obstruirse por el aluvi6n." _ Whereas, as a result of the topo- Por cuanto en virtud de los tragraphical labors of the Bound- bajos topograiicos de la Comision vox. 26, p. 1513. ary Commission created by the de Limites creada por la Conven- Convention of March 1, 1889, it ci6n de 10 de Marzo de 1889, se has been observed that there is a ha observado que hay una clase typical class of changes effected tipica de cambios efectuados en in the bed of the Rio Grande, in el cauce del rio Bravo, en los which, owing to slow and gradual cuales, zi eausa de la corrosion erosion, coupled with avulsion, lenta gradual, combinada con said river abandons its old chan- la avulsion, dicho rio abandona su nel and there are se arated from antiguo canal y se separan de el it small portions of land known pequenas porciones de _ terreno as " bancos " bounded by the said conocidas con el nombre de old bed, and which, according to " bancos,” limitadas por el rethe terms of Article II of the ferido antiguo cauce y que, segun Val- 24- v- W12- aforementioned Convention of los términos del Articulo II de ln 188-1, remain subject to the do- expresada Convencién de 1884. minion and jurisdiction of the uedan su'etas al dominioy juriscountry from which they have diccion del pais de donde han sido been separated; separadas; Vlfhereas, said “bancos" are left Por cuanto dichos bancos quedun at a distance from the new river distantes del nuevo eauce del rio v bed, and, by reason of the succes— en razon de los depositos sucesivos sive deposits of alluvium, the old de aluvion se borra el antiguo channel is becoming eifaced, the canal, confundiendose el terreno land of said " bancos " becomes de los mismos bancos con el de los confused with the land of the colindantes y originandose din- "bancos" contiguous thereto, thus cultades y controversias, unas de giving rise to diilticulties and con- orden internacional v otras de ortroversies, some of an interna- den privado; ` tional and others of a private character; TVhereas, the labors of the In- Por cuanto los trabajos de la ternational Boundary Commis- Comision Internacional de Lision, undertaken with the object mites, emprendidos con el objeto of fixing the boundary line with de iijar la linea divisoria con relareference to the " bancos," have ci6n a los bancos. han demostrado demonstrated that the application que la aplicacion si estos del prin-