American-Mexican Claims Commission
The Comisión general de entre reclamaciones México y los Estados Unidos de América, English: General Claims Commission: United States and Mexico, was a bilateral international arbitration court of the governments of the United States of America and the United Mexican States.
Its legal basis was the General Claims Convention, an agreement of 8 September 1923 with the procedures at the clarification of financial claims of legal persons in a state was set to the Government of the other State.
By, on September 10, 1923 agreed, Special Claims Convention was agreed the basis for the Special Claims Commission, which over should decide priority claims of legal persons in the United States, which were caused by the Mexican Revolution.
The convention was ratified by the Mexican Parliament on 1 February 1924. The instruments of ratification were exchanged on March 1, 1924. The tribunal was composed of three judges together and joined in August in 1924 for the first time in November 1941 and met his final decision. The tribunal decided on extensions, complaints and claims which were dated between July 4, 1868, October 7, 1940. Through the decisions Mexican government was obliged to pay $ 40 million. The causes of the demands were mainly seizures and damage to property, expropriation of agricultural land, bank loans and breaches of contract.
Commissioners
From August 1924 to August 1927 sat Cornelis van Vollenhoven [ wp 1] the Commission ago. In this role, he was replaced by Dr. Kristian Are Balle [ wp 2], who resigned from this office on July 1, 1929. Counselors: Genaro Fernandez McGregor, Fred K. Nielsen [ wp 3] Carlyle Reginald Barnett, Enrique Munguia, Jr.
Decisions of the Comisión General de Reclamaciones
- March 31, 1926 North American Dredging Company of Texas / Government of Mexico
- April 27, 1927: Francisco Mallén consul in El Paso (Texas ) / Government of the United States,
- October 12, 1928: J. J. Boyd / Government of Mexico