Office of the Historian

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.,

A. M. Beaupré.
[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.