Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-15
NEW MEXICAN
MINING LAW
IS SUBMITTED
Consists of $50 Articles, and
Ten Transient Articles, and
is Now Before Congress
Is More Liberal.

The new Mexican mining law which
was presented the other day to con.
yress by the minister of tomento, con.
sists of $50 articles. besides ten tran
silent articles.
The pertenencia remains the same
as under the present law.
An item of legal interest in the
new Law is contained in Art 5, which
subject to the civil code of the fed
eral district, except as specially laiC
down by the mining law itself
So much attention has been giver
to the proposed prov isions of the new
law as affecting foreign interests in
Mexican mines, that 1t is of specia'
pertinence to examine the clauses bear
ing on this subject contained in the
draft finally submitted to congress.
II will be observed, says the Mex.
lean Herald, that not only has the ar
ticle forbidding foreign companies 70
acquire mines in Mexico been excised
from the project, hCt that also the
clause which conditioned the acqaisi
ton of mines by individual foreign
ers In the frontier states on the per,
mission of the executiv, has been re-
Taxed, and according to the final draft
is to apply only to ar eighty-kilomeIer
zone.
On the other hand, the disqualified
ton of foreign companies has been
made absolute in that zone. In other
words. in said zone, the conditions
which the suppressed Art IA sougnU
to apply TO the whole of the repubnc
will prevail.
The articles bearing on these points
are as follows:
"Art. 134.-No title deed to mining
property can be issued to foreigners
denouncing claims In a zone eighty
kilometers wide along the boundary
line with foreign states, unless they
previously obtain special permission
from the executive of the union. me
same formaIity is necessary when the
announcement is made conformity by
foreigners and citizens.
IF the permission be refused the
ground denounced will be declared
free"
Art. 135.-The permission to which
the foregoing article refers will be
necessary to enable foreigners to &C
quire by any other method mining
properties or liens thereon within said
eiehty-kilometer zone.
"Art I37.-Foreign companies are
incapable of denoun cling or acquiring
by any means mining property or
liens thereon within the zone men.
TONED In Art 1874.
"Art. 12S.-All acquisitions in con-
travention OF Arts. 1874 to 1877 of this
law are null and void. Suits for their
notification can be instituted either
by a party IN interest or by the fed
eral prosecuting attorney acting IN
der instructions from the department
of fomento.
art. 139.-When by inheritance or
judicial award in payment of a debt,
a foreigner acquires property coming
within the scope of Arts. 1874 and 1876,
he will be allowed a year to ALLEVIATE
such property, unless before the eX-
DIration NJ that time he shall have
secured the permission referred to In
the same articles.
art. 140.-When foreign company
is the beneficiary of the inheritance
or judicial adjudication, it must per.
force ALLEVIATE the property within the
period of one year.
The proposed new law will come IN
TO force on July /, 1909, except that
ing permits will cease to exist on the
PRONUNCIATION of the law. In the pre-
amble Minister Molina says that the
| prospecting permits have not giver
1 the results expected OF them.
The abolition of these permits Is ar
interesting innovation of the new law