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Show 450 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ernments, the regulations that should be issued to make effective said maintenance. ARTICLE XII Both Governments bind themselves to exempt from import duties all materials, implements, equipment, and supplies intended for the works, and passing from one country to the other. ARTICLE XIII The present Convention is drawn up both in the English and Span- ish languages. ARTICLE XIV The present Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective laws, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the City of Washington as soon as possible. This Convention will come into force from the date of the exchange of ratifications. In Witness Whereof, the Plenipotentiaries mentioned above have signed this Convention and have affixed their respective seals. Done in duplicate at the City of Mexico this first day of February one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. [seal] J. Reuben Clark Jr. [seal] Puig NOTES The text of the treaty set out above is taken from 48 Stat. 1621 (see also Treaty Series No. 864) which also includes the Spanish text, here omitted. Ratification of the treaty was advised by the Senate April 25, 1933 (Executive E, 72d Congress, 77 Gong. Bee. 2337-2338); the President ratified it October 20,1933, and the United States of Mexico October 6,1933; ratifications were exchanged in Washington Novem- ber 10,1933; and the treaty was proclaimed by the President Novem- ber 13,1933. For history of negotiations, see Foreign Relations 1925, vol. 2, pp. 566ff; 1926, vol. 2, pp. 706ff; 1927, vol. 2, pp. 232f; 1929, vol. 3, pp. 473ff; 1930, vol. 3, pp. 535ff; and 1933, vol. 5, pp. 823f. Prior to rati- fication of the treaty, there were two exchanges of notes between the Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs and the American Ambassador to Mexico whereby it was agreed (1) that in case of differences be- tween, on the one hand, the original Minute 129 of the International Boundary Commission, to which reference is made in Article I of the treaty, and the attachments thereto and, on the other hand, the copies of these documents which actually accompanied the treaty, the origi- nals should govern and (2) "that the spirit and terms of the Conven- tion of February 1,1933, do not alter the spirit and terms of Conven- tions now in force as regards the utilization of water from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) and that, consequently, these matters remain en- tirely unaffected and in exactly the same status as existed before the Convention of February 1, 1933, was concluded." These two ex- changes are dated February 1, 1933, and September 8, 1933, respec- tively. Their texts are printed in 48 Stat. 1667, 1668. |