File No. 332/46D.

The Secretary of State to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Salvador.

Excellency: I beg leave to inclose herewith, in order that the views therein contained may come to the knowledge of your Government, [Page 626] a copy of a note which I addressed to the chargé d’affaires ad interim of Honduras at Washington on the 8th instant stating the procedure which to this department appears necessary to make effective the engagements of Article V of the convention signed on the Marblehead on July 20, 1906, and of Article III of the general treaty of amity signed at San Jose on September 24, 1906, with respect to the submission to the arbitration of the Presidents of the United States and Mexico of differences between Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador.

Accept, etc.,

Elihu Root.