Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a supplementary protocol between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico changing the dates fixed by Article V of the convention of June 24, 1910, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Washington on the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten, the original of which supplementary protocol, being in the English and Spanish languages, is word for word as follows:

The plenipotentiaries who negotiated and signed the convention of June 24, 1910, for the arbitration of the Chamizal case, being thereunto duly empowered by their respective Governments, have agreed upon the following supplementary protocol:

Whereas it has become necessary, owing to the lapse of time, that the dates fixed by Article V of the before-mentioned convention be changed, it is hereby agreed as follows:

The date for the presentation of the respective cases and documentary evidence is fixed for February 15, 1911;

The date for the presentation of the respective countercases and documentary evidence is fixed for April 15, 1911;

The date for the first session of the commission is fixed for May 15, 1911.

All other provisions of the convention of June 24, 1910, remain unchanged.

This supplementary protocol shall be ratified in accordance with the constitutional forms of the contracting parties and shall take effect from the date of the exchange of its ratifications.

The ratifications of the convention and the supplementary protocol shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above supplementary protocol, both in the English and Spanish languages, and have hereunto affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

Philander C. Knox, [seal.]

F. L. de la Barra. [seal]

And whereas the said supplementary protocol has been duly-ratified on both parts and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven;

Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused the said supplementary protocol to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[seal.] Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fifth.

Wm. H. Taft.

By the President:
P. C. Knox,
Secretary of State.