MEXICAN FISHERY LEGISUTION 



APPEMDIX XXV 



DECREE COVERING CLASSIFIOVTION AND REGULAHON 

 OF FIXED PROPERTY OF FEDERAL OWNERSttlJIP 



Signed December 18, 1902. Published in Dublan y Lozano, 

 Volume 3^, for 1902, V.exico, D.F., 1907. 



CHAPTER II. 



Concerning property of public domain 

 or of coramai uae 



Article 3. Properties of federal public domain are those parts of the territory of 

 the republic, subject to the jurisdiction of the powers of the Union and vtiich, destined 

 by nature or by law, to common public use, are not subject to becoming private property. 



Article 4. Properties of public danain or common use belonging to the Federation, 

 are the fo3J.owing: 



I. Ihe territorial sea for a distance of three marine miles, measured from the line 

 of lowest low water on the mainland or on the islands forming part of national territory. 



Article 5. Ihe use of the territorial sea for navigation, embarkation and disem- 

 barkation of passengers or merchandise, fishing, pearling or amy other purpose, is subject 

 to the legal provisions and administrative regulations of the federal government, regard- 

 less of the nationa2J.ty of the persons, companies or corporations irtio propose to make use 

 of such sea. 



The patrol and jiurisdiction of the federal authorities may extend into the sea, for 

 fiscal purposes, to a distance of twenty kilometers measured from the line of lowest low 

 water along the coasts of the rep\±ilic. 



Rescinded by Decree of December 31, 1941 

 (Appendlx XXVI, transitory article 6, page 8^), 



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