File No. 12208/4.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, March 2, 1910.
Most Excellent Sir: With a view to recording the interpretation that has been put upon the provision of the extradition treaty in force between our two countries bearing on the subject, I have the honor, by direction of my Government, to address your excellency to the end of estabh’shing by means of an exchange note that, in accordance with the practice which already obtains, the authentication by consuls residing in the country from which extradition is demanded is sufficient to have the papers upon which the request is based considered as duly authenticated.
I beg to cite to your excellency the case of Rafael Rodriguez, alias Manuel Hernandez, whose extradition was demanded in July, 1908, by the governor of Texas of the governor of Tamaulipas, who accepted the papers authenticated by the Mexican consul.
Trusting that your excellency will concur in the established practice of having the extradition papers authenticated by either the embassy or consul of the country from which extradition is demanded,
I renew, etc.,