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acre-feet acres agua all-American canal American April Arizona ARTÍCULO August Average Baja California basin Boquillas boundary line cent channel Colorado River Land commissioners construction convention countries crops cubic feet December discharge diversion Doctor Mead Dozal Eagle Pass El Paso ELWOOD MEAD engineer equitable Estados Unidos feet per second flood flow Gadsden Gila River Guadalupe Hidalgo Gulf of California Hidalgo Counties Imperial Canal Imperial irrigation district Imperial Valley international boundary International Water Commission irrigable land irrigated areas irrigation system July June lands in Mexico levee Lower California lower Colorado lower Rio lower valley mesa Mexican canal Mexican Government Mexican section miles navigation November Palo Verde Paso Pescadero present President proposed pumping Quitman Republic reservoir Rio Bravo Riogrande city Salineno Secretary Señor September Southern Pacific Co stipulations stream TABLE territory Texas tion Total Treaty of Guadalupe tributaries United Washington Yuma project
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Page 235 - ... to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico ; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town" called Paso) to its western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila...
Page 424 - The boundary line between the two republics shall commence in the gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea : from thence up the middle of that river...
Page 430 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 459 - ARTICLE I. There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican republic, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns and people, without exception of places or persons.
Page 454 - Paso) to its western termination; thence northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the River Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same...
Page 319 - Mexico, being, agreeably to the fifth article, divided in the middle between the two republics, the navigation of the Gila and of the Bravo below said boundary shall be free and common to the vessels and citizens of both countries; and neither shall, without the consent of the other, construct any work that may impede or interrupt, in whole or in part, the exercise of this right; not even for the purpose of favoring new methods of navigation.
Page 247 - It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, and when the words have a definite and precise meaning, to go elsewhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict or extend the meaning.
Page 261 - The vessels and citizens of the United States shall, in all time, have a free and uninterrupted passage...
Page 428 - In case, however, of extraordinary drought or serious accident to the irrigation system in the United States, the amount delivered to the Mexican Canal shall be diminished in the same proportion as the water delivered to lands under said irrigation system in the United States.
Page 267 - ... influence and power, to rescue them and return them to their country, or deliver them to the agent or representative of the Mexican government. The Mexican authorities will, as far as practicable, give to the government of the United States notice of such captures; and...