File No. 7291.

The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]
No. 73.]

Most Excellent Sir: With reference to the correspondence exchanged between this embassy and the department in your worthy charge, regarding the express notice my Government would like to have of the decision reached in every case of extradition in which the surrender of a fugitive criminal is requested, and with special reference to your department’s note No. 542 of the 5th of December, [Page 844] 1904, by which you were pleased to advise this office that the Attorney-General had been asked to instruct all the extradition magistrates to acquaint your department with the decisions reached in every case, to enable your department to comply with this embassy’s request, I have the honor again to ask that copies of the decisions under consideration be furnished to me hereafter.

I beg to inform you that the Department of Foreign Relations of my country has made it a constant practice to forward to the Ambassador of the United States at Mexico City a full copy of every decision of that Department in which the grounds for the decision in every extradition case are set forth and to publish in its monthly Bulletin every case thus decided. It is therefore earnestly hoped that, if there be no objection thereto, the department in your worthy charge will not hesitate about acceding to my Government’s desire.

I further beg to draw your attention to the fact that the proposed practice would also serve an eminently useful purpose for both countries, as a perfect knowledge of the respective proceedings and decisions would help in establishing a uniform jurisprudence and remedying the defects of the law.

I renew, etc.,

Enrique C. Creel.