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15].4 CONVENTION—MEXlCO—BOUNDARY. Minion 1, 1889. Anrrorn III. Anricnno III _szm¤gs or Cdmmis- The International Boundary La Comision Internacional de “°"‘ Commission shall not transact Lirnites no podra funcionar sino any business unless both Com- cuando estuvieren presentes los missioners are present. It shall dos Comisionados. Residira pre- ‘ sit on the frontier of the two cou- cisamente en la Frontera de los dos tracting countries, and shall es- paises contratantes y se establetablish itself at such places as it cera en los lugares que ella determay determine upon; it shall, minare; pero se trasladarja sin however, repair to places at which dilacion a los lugares en que ocuany of the diflicu ties or ques- rra cualquiera de las dificultades tions mentioned in this conven— 6 cuestiones mencionadas en la tion may arise, as soon as it shall presente convencion, tan luego have been duly notified thereof. como se le haga la notincacion correspondiente. Anrronn IV. Anriouno IV. · gmugammmmog When, owing to natural causes, Cuando, por causas naturales, §gf*R’§jg}_g ;j*{}gft°; any change shall take place in the ocurriere alguna alteracién en el uecwoommsssion bed of the Rio Grande or in that cauce del rio Bravo del Norte 6 of the Colorado River, in that del rio Colorado, en la parte en ‘ portion thereof wherein those riv- que estos rios sirven de limite ers form the boundary line be- entre los dos paises, que afecte la tween the two countries, which linea divisoria, se notiiicara este may affect the boundary line, hecho por la autoridad local resnotice of that fact shall be given ectiva de uno ii otro lado, al by the proper local authorities Comisionado respectivo de la Coon both sides to their respective misi6n Internacional -de Limites, Commissioners of the Interna- la cual tendra obligacion, al retional Boundary Commission, on cibir ese aviso, de trasladarse al receiving which notice it shall be lugar del cambio 6 cuestion; ex— the duty of the said Commission aminara personalmente el cambio to repair to the place where the indicado; lo comparara con el change has taken place or the sauce que seguia el rio antes de question has arisen, to make a que este cambio tuviera lugar, personal examination of such segun aparezca de los planos rechange, to compare it with the spectivos, y decidira si se ha veribed of the river as it was before flcado por avulsion 6 corrosion, the change took place, as shown para los cfectos de los articulos I by the surveys, and to decide II de la convencion de doce de whether it has occurred through Noviembre de mil ochocientos avulsion or erosion, for the effects ochenta y cuatro, haciendo las of Articles I and II of the con- anotaciones correspondientes en V<>r Mr 1012. vention of November 12th, 1884; los planes de la linea divisoria. having done this, it shall make suitab e annotations on the surveys of the boundary line. Anrronn V. ARTICULO V. ]w°**¤, °h¤¤ iw Whenever the local authorities Siem re ue la autoridad local c otml-gem Ou any point of the frontier be- de cuallduiei punto de la froutera tween the United States of Amer- entre los Edados Unidos de ica and the United States of Mex- América y los Estados Unidos ico, in that portion in which the Mexicanos, en la parte en qlue los Rio Grande and the Colorado rios Bravo del Norte y Co orado River form the boundarybetween sirven de limite a los dos paises, the two countries, shall think creyere que se estan coustruyendo that works are being constructed, obras en cualquiera de estos rios,