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.,
[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.
