Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Ambassador Thompson to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
Petropolis, May 19, 1905.

No. 36.]

Sir: For the information of the Department of State I inclose herewith the text of the boundary treaty between Brazil and Ecuador, the exchange of ratifications of which took place in Petropolis on the 16th instant, together with translation of the same.

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I have, etc.,

D. E. Thompson.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

(From the Journal de Commercio of May 18, 1905.)

[May 18, 1905]

The treaty of limits between Brazil and Ecuador, whose exchange of ratifications was realized day before yesterday in Petropolis, is of the following tenor:

• Article 1. The Republic of the United States of Brazil and the Republic of Ecuador agree that if the litigation which exists over limits between Ecuador and Peru terminates favorably for Ecuador, as that Republic hopes, the frontier between Brazil and Ecuador wherever they border shall be the same as that stipulated in Article VII of the convention celebrated in Lima by Brazil and Peru on the 23d of October, 1851, with the unchanged modification of the accord, also signed in Lima, of the 11th of February, 1874, for the exchange of territories on the line of the lçá or Putumayo—that is, that the frontier shall be wholly or in part conforming to the result of the aforesaid litigation—the geodetic line which departs from the mouth of the Igarape Santo Antonio, on the left margin of the Amazon, between Tabatinga and Leticia, and terminates at the confluence of the Apaporis with the Japura or Caqueta, except in the section of the Rio lçá or Putumayo divided by the same line, where the channel of the river between the points of intersection shall form the division.
• Art. 2. The two high contracting parties declare that in celebrating the present treaty they have no intention of prejudicing any right which the other neighbor nations may prove in time—that is, that they have no intention of modifying the questions of limits pending between Brazil and Colombia and between Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru—a purpose which Brazil also did not have when it negotiated the convention of October 23, 1857, with Peru.
• Art. 3. This treaty, after being approved by the executive power of each one of the two Republics, shall be ratified by the respective governments and the ratifications shall be exchanged in Rio de Janeiro, in Quito, or in Santiago de Chile.