Office of the Historian

Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Buenos Aires, June 26, 1905.
No. 165.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that, following up the course of reforms and reorganization in the diplomatic and consular services of this country inaugurated by the present administration, Congress has adopted and the Executive approved a law for the pensioning of the diplomats of the country that have grown or shall grow old in the performance of the duties of office. I inclose the usual number of copies of the law cut from the Boletin Oficial (Official Bulletin), No. 3499, of the 20th instant, and the usual number of copies of a translation of the same into English.

I am, etc.,

A. M. Beaupré.

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

[From the “Boletin Official,” No. 3499, of June 20, 1905.]

law for the pension of diplomats.

Whereas, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine nation, united in Congress, etc., have sanctioned with the force of law:

  • Art. I. The ministers plenipotentiary of the Republic, accredited abroad, who shall have reached the age of seventy years, and performed the duties of their office for a period of not less than fifteen consecutive years, shall be retired and pensioned with one thousand national pesos, legal tender.
  • Art. II. The ministers plenipotentiary of the Republic, accredited abroad, who shall in the future attain the age of seventy years, and shall have performed the duties of their office for a [Page 35] period of not less than fifteen consecutive years, shall be retired on the full salary which they may enjoy at the moment of coming under the provisions of this present law, and to this effect the respective paragraphs of the budget shall always represent money of legal tender.
  • Art. III. Let it be communicated to the Executive.

Given in the Hall of Sessions of the Argentine Congress, in Buenos Aires, the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five.

  • J. Figueroa alcorta.
  • B. Ocampo,
    Secy. of the Senate.
  • Angel Sastre.
  • Alejandro Sorondo,
    Secy. of the Ch. of D.

Registered under No. 4555.

Therefore: Let it be the law of the nation, let it be communicated, published in the official bulletin, and given to the national register.

  • Quintana.
  • C. Rodriguez Larreta.