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Show RIO GRANDE, COLORADO, TIJUANA TREATY 477 The works to be constructed or used on or along the boundary, and those to be constructed or used exclusively for the discharge of treaty stipulations, shall be under the jurisdiction of the Commission or of the respective Section, in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty. In carrying out the construction of such works the Sections of the Commission may utilize the services of public or private orga- nizations in accordance with the laws of their respective countries. This Protocol, which shall be regarded as an integral part of the aforementioned Treaty signed in Washington on February 8, 1944, shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in Washington. This Protocol shall be effective beginning with the day of the entry into force of the Treaty and shall continue effective so long as the Treaty remains in force. In Witness Whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Protocol and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate, in the English and Spanish languages, in Wash- ington, this fourteenth day of November, 1944. For the Government of the United States of America: E R Stetttnitjs Jr [seal] Acting Secretary of State for the United States of America For the Government of the United Mexican States: F. Castillo Najera [seal] Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States in Washington NOTES The texts of the treaty and protocol above set out are taken from Treaty Series No. 994 (see also 59 Stat. 1219) which also includes the Spanish texts, here omitted. After public hearings by the Committee on Foreign Relations, which have been printed, and after debate (91 Cong. Bee. 2324-2349, 2750, 2805-2833, 3092-3107, 3112-3132, 3152- 3173, 3174-3178, 3278-3280, 3290-3320, 3365-3385, 3387-3388, 3407- 3430, 3480-3492 (1945)), ratification was advised by the Senate April 18, 1945 (Executive A and Executive H, 78th Congress) subject to certain understandings hereinafter set out; the treaty and protocol were ratified by the President November 1, 1945, subject to those un- derstandings, and by the President of the United States of Mexico October 16,1945, after the Mexican Senate on September 27,1945, had approved the understandings in all matters affecting the rights and obligations between the parties; ratifications were exchanged in Wash- ington November 8, 1945; and the treaty and protocol, subject to the understandings, were proclaimed by the President November 27,1945, effective November 8,1945. The resolution of the Senate advising and consenting to ratification was as follows: "Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of Executive A, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, a treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande |
