File No. 5483/1.
Minister Beaupré to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Buenos
Aires, February 21,
1907.
No. 496.]
Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit the
usual number (2) of copies of an executive decree of the 8th instant,
cut from the Bole-tin Official, No. 3978, of the 13th instant, whereby
are approved the final acts of the mixed Argentine-Brazilian commission
appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Argentine-Brazilian
protocol of August 9, 1905, to describe and mark the boundary between
this Republic and that of Brazil, in accordance with the arbitral
decision of the President of the United States of February 5, 1895, to
whom the same had been submitted in pursuance of a treaty of September
7, 1889, between these two neighboring Republics. It is also provided in
this decree for the necessary steps to the transfer from this country to
Brazil of the islands that were declared Brazilian territory and for the
transfer from Brazil to this country of the islands declared Argentine
territory.
A translation accompanies the decree.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Decree approving the final acts of the mixed
international commission of limits with Brazil.
Buenos Aires, February 8,
1907.
Having seen the final acts of demarcation of the dividing line
between the Argentine Republic and the Republic of the United States
of Brazil, subscribed by the mixed international commission created
in accordance with the protocols of August 9, 1895, October 1, 1898,
and August 2, 1900, and having seen, likewise, the general plans of
the frontier demarked, traced, and subscribed to by the same
commission in fulfillment of Article VI of the treaty of October 6,
1898.
The provisional president of the Senate, in exercise of the executive
power, decrees:
- Art. I. The final acts
subscribed by the mixed international commission of June 8,
July 15, and August 8, 1904, are approved, in which is
traced and described the dividing line between the two
countries, from the mouth of the Cuareim to that of the
Pepiri Guazú; from the mouth of the latter to the principal
source of the river San Antonio, and from there following
its bed to its conjunction with the river Iguazú; and from
the mouth of the river San Antonio to its conjunction with
the Paraná.
- Art. II. Likewise is approved
the general plan of demarcation signed by the members of the
mixed international commission, which plan was approved and
subscribed by it, as shown by the act of October 6,
1901.
- Art. III. The minister for
foreign affairs will enter into the necessary agreements in
order to take possession of the islands which said acts and
plans declare to be Argentine and for the transfer of the
islands which in like manner belong to the Republic of the
United States of Brazil.
- Art. IV. Let it be communicated,
published, and given to the National Register.
- Villanueva.
- E. S. Zeballos.
