The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-03-25


U. S. GRANT.
Ry the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary Of State.
Convention Mexico. ".-NGVeHi-
Drr 27. 1872. ...
Convention between the United States of
3 America and the United States of Mexico.
Revival and further extension of dura-
ton of the joint commission for the set
tlement of claims. Concluded Novem-
her 81, 1872; ratification advised by
Senate with amendment. March 3, 1873 !;
ratified by President March 10, 1873 !:
ratified by the President of Mexico May
10. 1873: ratifications exchanged at
Washington July II, 1873; proclaimed
July 24, 1873.
BY THE PaEsIDEST OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
APROCLAMATION.
Whereas convention between the Uni
ted States of America and the United
States of Mexico, for further extending the
time fixed by the convention between the
same parties of the 4th of July, 1868, for
the duration Of the joint commission on
the subject of claims, was concluded and
signed by their respective Plenipotentia-
RES, at Washington, on the twenty-seventh
day of November last, which convention,
after having been amended and ratified by
the contracting parties, is word for word
as follows:
Whereas, by the convention concluded
between the United States and the Mexican
Republic on the fourth day of July, 1868,
certain claims of the citizens of the con-
tracing parties were submitted to joint
commission, whose functions were to
terminate within two years aud six months,
reckoning from the day of the first meeting
of the commission and whereas the
functions of the aforesaid joint commission
we're extended. according to the convention
concluded between the same parties on the
nineteenth day of April, 1871, for term
not exceeding one year from the day on
which they were to terminate according to
the first convention; and whereas the pos
sibility of said commissions concluding its
labors even within the period fixed by the
aforesaid convention of April nineteenth,
1871, is doubtful:
Therefore, the President of the United
States of America and the President of the
term of the aforementioned commission
should be again extended, in order to at
tain this end, have appointed. the Presi-
dent of the United States Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State. and the President of the
United States of Mexico Ignacio Mariscal,
accredited to the Government of the Uni
ted States as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of said United
States of Mexico, who, having exchanged
their respective powers, which were found
sufficient and in due form, have agreed
upon the following articles
ARTICLE l.
The high contracting parties agree that
the said commission be revived and that
the time fixed by the convention of April
nineteenth, 1871, for the duration of the
commission aforesaid, shall be extended for
term not exceeding two years from the
day on which the functions of the said
commission would terminate according to
that convention, or for shorter time if it
should be deemed sufficient by the com
missioners or the umpire, in case of their
disagreement.
1t is agreed that nothing contained in
this article shall i'll any wise alter or extend
the time originally fixed in the said conven-
ton for the presentation of claims to the
commission.
ARTICLE II.
The present convention shall be ratified
and the notifications shall be exchanged at
Washington as soon as possible.
In witness whereof, the above-named
Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and
affixed their respective seals.
Done in the city of Washington the
twenty-seventh day of November, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.
SEAL. HAMILTON FISH.
SEAL. IGNO. MARISCAL.
And whereas the said convention, as
amended, has been duly ratified on both
parts, and the respective ratifications of the
same were exchanged at Washington on the
18th instant:
Now, therefore. be it known that l,
ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the Uni
ted States of America, have caused the
said convention to be made public, to the
end that the same, and every clause and
article thereof, may be observed and full
filed by the United States and the citizens
thereof. ....-
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the Uni
ted States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twen-
ty-fourth day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
TsEAL. eight hundred and seventy-three,
and of the Independence of the
United States the ninety-eighth.
U. S. GRANT.
By the President:
J. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
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