Office of the Historian

Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Buenos Aires, June 28, 1905.
No. 166.]

Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit the usual number of copies of a law passed by Congress on the 16th instant and approved by the Executive on the 26th instant entitled: Law regulating the professions of engineers, architects, and agriculturists. By the terms of this law it is required that all civil and mechanical engineers, architects, chemists, agronomists and surveyors, with the exception of those already established and of special foreign experts, to whom for lack of corresponding native talent the Executive may be compelled to intrust special tasks, must, in order to practice their professions in this country, have received diplomas from the universities and special schools of the nation, or if holding titles from foreign institutions, must “revalidate” their titles in accordance with the regulations here in force.

The general intention of this law is, I take it, to provide for the uniform qualification of those who practice the professions in question, as has long since been done in the case of physicians, dentists, etc. As in these last-mentioned cases, for the purpose of “revalidation” the applicant will doubtless be required to pass here examinations in the whole matter of his profession that will necessitate the reviewing if not the repetition of his studies.

I inclose also a translation of the law.

I am, etc.,

A. M. Beaupré.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

[From the Boletin Oficial, No. 3503, of June 27, 1905. Ministry of Justice and Public Instruction. Division of Justice.]

law regulating the professions of engineers, architects, and agriculturists.

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation united in Congress, etc., sanction with the force of law:

  • Art. I. After the promulgation of this law the Executive and tribunals of the nation shall not confer charge, employment, or commission in the professions of civil and mechanical [Page 36] engineers, in architecture, chemistry, husbandry, and surveying except upon such as have received diplomas from the universities and special schools of the nation, or upon such as revalidate their foreign titles in accordance with the regulations now in force.
  • Art. II. There shall be excepted from the provisions of the preceding article—
    (a)
    The persons now actually found in the discharge of charges, employments, or commissions of the character of those referred to in Art. I.
    (b)
    There shall also be excepted from the provisions of the preceding article the persons who possess technical knowledge, to whom the Executive is compelled to intrust special tasks which can not be performed by the talent of the country.
    (c)
    Persons of the professions indicated in Art. I, who have degrees given by provincial universities, schools, or tribunals previous to January first, one thousand nine hundred and four, or who were found previous to that same date matriculated or recognized in any national or municipal bureau of the capital.
    (d)
    The same persons who in the provinces or national territories, where they were not given their diplomas, exercise the professions above enumerated subject to the regulations that may be enacted.
  • Art. III. Let it be communicated to the Executive.

Given in the Hall of Sessions of the Argentine Congress, in Buenos Aires, the sixteenth of June, one thousand nine hundred and five.

  • J. Figueroa Alcorta.
  • Enrique Maldes,
    Prosecy. of the Senate.
  • Angel Sastre.
  • A. M. Tallaferro,
    Prosecy. of the Ch. of Deputies.

Registered under No. 4560.

Department of Justice,
Buenos Aires, June 26, 1905.

Let it be the law of the nation, let it be executed, communicated, published, and inserted in the National Register.

  • Quintana.
  • J. V. Gonzales.