723.2515/1086
The Peruvian Ambassador (Pezet) to the Secretary of State
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that in accordance with the request made to me in the name of his Government by the Most Excellent Senor Don Beltran Mathieu, Ambassador of Chile to the United States, my Government, upon the authority given by the Congress, and in further proof of the sincerity and uprightness of its acts and also of its principles of peace and American brotherhood, has agreed to extend until the 15th of January next, the time set for the exchange of the ratifications of the protocol and supplementary act signed in Washington on July 20 last by the Special Plenipotentiaries of Peru and Chile, which exchange was to have taken place by October 20 last in accordance with the provision in article 3 of the protocol but which could not then be effected for the reason that the approval of the said instruments was still pending in the Chilean Congress.
I avail myself [etc.]
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