Rio Grande Canalization Project: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9998 and H.R. 11768 (both Same Title) Authorizing Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Rio Grande Canalization Project and Authorizing Appropriation for that Purpose. March 10 and 13, 1936

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Page 32 - 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 32 - Roosevelt, 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...
Page 31 - Treaty is word for word as follows: The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of.
Page 31 - ARTICLE iI The delivery of the said amount of water shall be assured by the United States and shall be distributed through the year in the same proportions as the water supply proposed to be furnished from the said irrigation system to lands in the United States in the vicinity of El Paso, Texas, according to the following schedule, as nearly as may be possible...
Page 17 - Any purchase made under this paragraph may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (USC, title 41, sec. 5) upon certification by the Commission that such action is necessary in the interest of the common defense and security, or upon a showing that advertising is not reasonably practicable, and partial and advance payments may be made thereunder.
Page 32 - IV. The delivery of water as herein provided is not to be construed as a recognition by the United States of any claim on the part of Mexico to the said waters...
Page 31 - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Whereas a Convention between the United States of America and the United States of...
Page 32 - In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the convention both in the English and Spanish languages and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this twenty-first day cf May, one thousand nine hundred and six. ELIHU ROOT. [SEAL.] JOAQUIN D. CASASUS.
Page 31 - The President of the United States of America. Elihu Root. Secretary of State of the United States : and His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable James Bryce. OM, his Ambassador Extraordinary...
Page 1 - ... purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of motor-propelled passenger- and freight-carrying vehicles; hire with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; acquisition by donation...

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