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Show 476 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES this period of time the United States will make available in the river at such diversion structure river flow not currently required in the United States, and the United States will cooperate with Mexico to the end that the latter may satisfy its irrigation requirements within the limits of those requirements for lands irrigated in Mexico from the Colorado River during the year 1943. VII-Final Provisions ARTICLE 28 This Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in Washington. It shall enter into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications and shall continue in force until ter- minated by another Treaty concluded for that purpose between the two Governments. In Witness Whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate in the English and Spanish languages, in Wash- ington on this third day of February, 1944. For the Government of the United States of America: Cordell Hull [seal" George S. Messersmith [seal" Lawrence M. Lawson [seal^ For the Government of the United Mexican States: F. Castillo Najera [seal] Rafael Fernandez MacGregor [seal] PROTOCOL The Government of the United States of America and the Govern- ment of the United Mexican States agree and understand that: Wherever, by virtue of the provisions of the Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed in Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, specific functions are imposed on, or exclusive jurisdiction is vested in, either of the Sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission, which involve the construction or use of works or storage or conveyance of water, flood control, stream gaging, or for any other purpose, which are situated wholly within the territory of the country of that Section, and which are to be used only partly for the performance of treaty provisions, such jurisdiction shall be exercised, and such functions, including the construction, operation and maintenance of the said works, shall be performed and carried out by the Federal agencies of that country which now or hereafter may be authorized by domestic law to construct, or to operate and maintain, such works. Such functions or jurisdictions shall be exercised in conformity with the provisions of the Treaty and in cooperation with the respective Section of the Commission, to the end that all international obliga- tions and functions may be coordinated and fulfilled. |