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Show 448 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ARTICLE II For the execution of the works there shall be followed the proce- dure outlined in the technical study of the project. The works shall be begun and shall be carried on primarily from the lower end, but at the same time and for reasons of necessity works may be carried on in the upper sections of the valley. ARTICLE III In consideration of the difference existing in the benefits derived by each of the contracting countries by the rectification works, the proratable cost of the works will be defrayed by both Governments in the proportion of eighty-eight per cent (88%) by the United States of America and of twelve per cent (12%) by the United Mexican States. ARTICLE IV The direction and inspection of the works shall be under the In- ternational Boundary Commission, each Government employing for the construction of that portion of the work it undertakes, the agency that in accordance with its administrative organization should carry on the work. ARTICLE V The International Boundary Commission shall survey the ground to be used as the right of way to be occupied by the rectified chan- nel, as well as the parts to be cut from both sides of said channel. Within thirty days after a cut has been made, it shall mark the boundaries on the ground, there being a strict superficial compen- sation in total of the areas taken from each country. Once the cor- responding maps have been prepared, the Commission shall elimi- nate these areas from the provisions of Article II of the Convention of November 12, 1884, in similar manner to that adopted in the Con- vention of March 20, 1905 for the elimination of bancos. ARTICLE VI For the sole purpose of equalizing areas, the axis of the rectified channel shall be in the international boundary line. The parcels of land that, as a result of these cuts or of merely taking the new axis of the channel as the boundary line, shall remain on the Ameri- can side of the axis of the rectified channel shall be the territory and property of the United States of America, and the territory and property of the United Mexican States those on the opposite side, each Government mutually surrendering in favor of the other the acquired rights over such parcels. In the completed rectified river channel-both in its normal and constructed sections-and in any completed portion thereof, the per- |