File No. 16017.

The Colombian Minister to the Secretary of State.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of note No. 972 of the Colombian minister of foreign relations under date of August 25 last, in compliance with instructions received from said minister.

I avail, etc.,

Enrique Cortes.
[Inclosure—Translation.]

The Colombian Minister of Foreign Relations to the Colombian Minister at Washington.

The National Legislative Assembly gave its approval to the following international agreements during its last session:

The boundary treaty between Colombia and Ecuador, signed at Bogota on May 24 last by Messrs. Batencourt and Adrade.

The agreement regarding the execution of civil judgments concluded between Colombia and Spain by the minister of the Republic at Madrid and the minister of state of His Catholic Majesty.

The convention between Colombia and Ecuador as an addition to the boundary treaty.

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The convention revising the additional convention to the concordat concluded between the minister of foreign relations and the apostolic delegate and relative to the carrying out of article 25 of the concordat.

The treaty of amity and commerce concluded by you with Japan.

The treaty of amity and commerce with Switzerland concluded with the minister of foreign relations of that country by the Colombian minister, Mr. Quijano Wallis.

The convention regarding industrial property concluded with Great Britain last year.

The Washington Sanitary Convention, to which the Republic of Colombia adhered.

The convention regarding naturalized foreigners who renew their residence in the country of their origin concluded at the Mexican conference.

The convention for the submission of pecuniary claims to arbitration subscribed at Rio de Janeiro.

The treaty signed at Mexico on the same subject, and the convention on the exchange of official publications, also signed at Mexico.

As you will see, there appear among these agreements several of the conventions signed at the Pan American Congress of Mexico and two of those signed at the Pan American Congress at Rio de Janeiro. The latter two are those which determine the status of naturalized foreigners who return to the country of their origin and the one submitting pecuniary claims to arbitration. The convention on international law had already been ratified by the Government, and as regards the convention on patents, drawings, etc., the Government thought it more suitable to take it under further consideration. It is to be presumed that the American Government thought the same way, since the last congress did not ratify this convention as it did the rest.

I would beg of you to make the contents of this communication known officially to the Secretary of State of the United States and to the Director of the Bureau of American Republics.

With the highest regards, I am,

Your most obedient servant,

Feanoisco José Urrutia.