Mr. Castellanos to Mr. Gresham.
San Salvador , October 9, 1894 .
Sir: I have the honor to notify your excellency that I have received instructions from the president to inform you that the Government of this Republic, making use of the right granted it by article 8 of the extradition treaty existing between the two countries, concluded in this city on the 23d May, 1870, and exchanged in the same May 12, 1873, desires that its effects cease at the termination of the legal period of continuance, as it was not denounced in proper time within the six months prior to the date of its expiration; and that if your excellency’s Government wishes to have it cease at once, by means of a special convention, it is ready on its part to make that arrangement.
I avail myself, etc.,