Treaty Series No. 668

Resolution of the Senate of the United States Advising Ratification of the Extradition Treaty with Costa Rica

In Executive Session, Senate of the United States, February 8, 1923.

Resolved (Two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of Executive A, 67th Congress, 4th Session, an extradition treaty between the United States and Costa Rica, signed at San Jose on November 10, 1922, and

That it is agreed by the United States that no person charged with crime shall be extradited from Costa Rica upon whom the death penalty can be inflicted for the offense charged by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the charge is pending, and that this agreement on the part of the United States will be mentioned in the ratifications of the treaty and will, in effect, form part of the treaty.

Attest:

George A. Sanderson,
Secretary
By H. M. Rose,
Assistant Secretary