1744 CONVENTION—MEXICO. Dncmmnn 2, 1898. ¤¤¤v¤¤¤<¤·· 0'onvention between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. Extending _/or a period of one year _/rom December 24, 1898, the duration of the convention of March 1, 1889, between the tu·o High Oontracting Parties concerning the water boundary between the tu·o countries. Signed at Washington December 2, 1898; ratification advised by the Senate December 8, 1898; ratified by the President of the United States December 12, 1898; ratified by the President of Mexico December 15, 1898; ratijications exchanged at Washington February 2, 1899; proclaimed February 3, 1899. Bx rum Pansrnnur on run Umrnn STATES or Armmea. A PBOCLAMATION. Preamble- Whereas, a Convention between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico extending for a period of one year h·om December 24, 1898, the duration of the Convention between the two High Contracting Parties of March 1, 1889, concerning the water V¤¤·$·1¤-im- boundary between the two countries, was concluded and signed by their respective pleuipotentiaries at the City of Washington on the 2** A»·¢•.1»-M5 day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, the original of which Convention, being in the English and Spanish languages, is word for word as follows: Whereas the United States of Deseando los Estados Unidos de America and the United States of América y1osEstadosUnidosMexi· Mexico desire to give full edect to canes dar pleno cumplimiento a las ~ the provisions of the Convention estipulaciones de la Convencion concluded and signed in Washing- concluida y iirmada en Washington March 1, 1889, to facilitate the ton el 1° de Marzo de 1889, para execution of the provisions con- facilitar la ejecucion de los princitained in the Treaty signed by the pies contenidos eu el Tratado firtwo High Contracting Parties on made entre las dos Altas Partes the 12*** of November, 1884, and to Contratantes el 12 de Noviembre avoid the ditliculties arising from de 1884, y evitar las diiicultades the changes which are takingplace eausadas por los cambios en los in the beds of the Bravo del Norte cauces de los rios Bravo del Norte and Colorado Rivers in those parts yColorado, en las partes que sirven which serve as a boundary between de limite a las dos Republicas; the two Republics; And whereas the period fixed byY debiendo expirar el 24 de Article IX of the Convention of Diciembre de 1898 el plazo iijado March 1, 1889, extended by the 8DQlATtl0Dl01Xd8l8C0llV8ll0lOI1 Conventions of October 1, 1895, de 1° de Marzo de 1889, ampliado and November 6, 1896 and October por las Convenciones de 1** de Oc- 29, 1897, expires on the 24*** of tubre de 1895, 6 de Noviembre de December, 1898; 1896 y 29 de Octubre de 1897; And whereas the two High Con- Y consideraudo conveniente las _ tracting Parties deem it expedient dos Altas Partes Contratantes pro
