File No. 13468/2–3.
Minister Dodge to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
San
Salvador, May 23,
1908.
No. 90, Salvadorean series.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose to you
herewith a copy of an act of the National Legislative Assembly of El
Salvador, promulgated by the executive of El Salvador on May 8, last, as
well as an English translation of the same, approving in all its parts
the executive decree, limiting the powers of representatives of foreign
nations in El Salvador and the cases in which their intervention in
judicial matters will be considered, et cetera, a copy and translation
of which accompanied Mr. Gregory’s dispatch No. 77, Salvadorean series,
of April 21, last.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The National Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador, in
the exercise of the powers conferred on it by the constitution,
decrees:
Sole article. To approve in all its parts the decree of April 13
last, issued by the executive power, establishing the obligation on
the part of the ministry for foreign affairs to denounce the
treaties and conventions now in force by which the national
sovereignty is in any way impaired, by conceding to the agents of
foreign nations the exercise of judicial functions of a voluntary or
contentious nature, within the territory of the Republic; to
determine the force of notarial acts executed before them in this
Republic and to establish other procedures in their acts in
accordance with our laws and modern principles.
Given in the Hall of Sessions of the
legislative power, San Salvador, May 7,
1908.
Antonio J. Matinez,
President.
Manuel Recinos,
First Secretary.
Salvador Fuentes Reyes,
Second Secretary.
Palace of the Executive,
San Salvador, May 8, 1908.
Therefore let this be complied with.
The minister for foreign affairs.
