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Show 444 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES In case, however, of extraordinary drought or serious accident to the irrigation system in the United States, the amount delivered to the Mexican Canal shall be diminished in the same proportion as the water delivered to lands under said irrigation system in the United States. ARTICLE III The said delivery shall be made without cost to Mexico, and the United States agrees to pay the whole cost of storing the said quantity of wrater to be delivered to Mexico, of conveying the same to the inter- national line, of measuring the said water, and of delivering it in the river bed above the head of the Mexican Canal. It is understood that the United States assumes no obligation beyond the delivering of the water in the bed of the river above the head of the Mexican Canal. ARTICLE IV The delivery of water as herein provided is not to be construed as a recognition by the United States of any claim on the part of Mexico to the said waters; and it is agreed that in consideration of such delivery of water, Mexico waives any and all claims to the waters of the Rio Grande for any purpose whatever between the head of the present Mexican Canal and Fort Quitman, Texas, and also declares fully settled and disposed of, and hereby waives, all claims heretofore asserted or existing, or that may hereafter arise, or be asserted, against the United States on account of any damages alleged to have been sustained by the owners of land in Mexico, by reason of the diversion by citizens of the United States of waters of the Rio Grande. article v The United States, in entering into this treaty, does not thereby concede, expressly or by implication, any legal basis for any claims heretofore asserted or which may be hereafter asserted by reason of any losses incurred by the owners of land in Mexico due or alleged to be due to the diversion of the waters of the Rio Grande within the United States; nor does the United States in any way concede the establishment of any general principle or precedent by the con- cluding of this treaty. The understanding of both parties is that the arrangement contemplated by this treaty extends only to the por- tion of the Rio Grande which forms the international boundary from the head of the Mexican Canal down to Fort Quitman, Texas, and in no other case. ARTICLE VI The present Convention shall be ratified by both contracting parties in accordance with their constitutional procedure, and the ratifica- tions shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. Iisr Witness Whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the Convention both in the English and Spanish languages and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at the City of Washington, this 21st day of May, one thousand nine hundred and six. Elihu Root [seal] Joaquin D Casasus [seal] |
