ITALY-TURKEY. Italian ultimatum concerning Tripoli. September 28, 1911. 11 12 MOROCCO TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS: Convention as to Cape Spartel light-house. May 31, 1865.. Madrid convention as to protection. July 3, 1880. Regulations relative to protection. August 19, 1863... Declaration between Great Britain and France. April 8, 1904.. Declaration between Germany and France. February 9, 1909... Exchange of Notes between France and Morocco. August 14-December UNITED STATES-GREAT BRITAIN. Convention relating to fur-seals in Behring OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS CONVENTION BETWEEN COSTA RICA AND PANAMA FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY. Signed at Washington, March 17, 1910. The Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Panama, in view of the friendly mediation of the Government of the United States of America, and prompted by the desire to adjust in an adequate manner their differences on account of their boundary line, have appointed plenipotentiaries as follows: Costa Rica, His Excellency Señor Licenciado Don Luis Anderson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on Special Mission. Panama, His Excellency Señor Dr. Don Belisario Porras, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on Special Mission, Who, after having communicated their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following convention: ARTICLE I. The Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Panama, although they consider that the boundary between their respective territories designated by the arbitral award of His Excellency the President of the French Republic the 11th of September 1900, is clear and indisputable in the region of the Pacific from Punta Burica to a point beyond Cerro Pando on the Central Cordillera near the ninth degree of north latitude, have not been able to reach an agreement in respect to the interpretation which ought to be given to the arbitral award as to the rest of the boundary line; and for the purpose of settling their said disagreements agree to submit to the decision of the honorable the Chief Justice of the United States, who will determine, in the capacity of arbitrator, the question: What is the boundary between Costa Rica and Panama under and most in accordance with the correct interpretation and true intention of the award of the President of the French Republic made the 11th of September, 1900? In order to decide this the arbitrator will take into account all the facts, circumstances, and considerations which may have a bearing upon the case, as well as the limitation of the Loubet Award expressed in the letter of His Excellency Monsieur Delcassé, Minister of Foreign Relations of France, to His Excellency Señor Peralta, Minister of Costa Rica in Paris, of November 23, 1900, that this boundary line must be drawn within the confines of the territory in dispute as determined by the Convention of Paris between the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Colombia of January 20, 1886. ARTICLE II. If the case shall arise for making a survey of the territory, either because the arbitrator shall deem it advisable or because either of the high contracting parties shall ask for a survey (in either of which cases it shall be made), it shall be conducted in the manner which the arbitrator shall determine upon, and by a commission of four engineers, one of whom shall be named by the President of Costa Rica, a second by the President of Panama, and the two others by the arbitrator. The persons selected by the arbitrator shall be civil engineers in private practice, in every respect independent and impartial, and without personal interest of any kind as respects either Costa Rica or Panama, and not citizens or residents of either of said countries. Said commission shall make detailed reports, with maps of the territory covered by their survey or surveys, which reports and maps, with the data relating thereto, shall be returned to the arbitrator, and copies thereof shall be communicated to the high contracting parties. ARTICLE III. If, by virtue of the award of the arbitrator, any portion of the territory now administered by either of the high contracting parties shall pass to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the other, the titles to lands or other real property rights in said region granted by the government of the former, prior to the date of this convention, shall be recognized and protected just as if they had issued from the other of them. ARTICLE IV. One month after the ratifications of this convention are exchanged, the representatives of the two governments, or of either of them, shall make request of the Chief Justice to accept the position of arbitrator. |