effected the day before yesterday in this city, so that this act is complete, lacking only the promulgation. The exchange of ratifications of the treaty with Uruguay should soon be realized. I hope that the small questions of form which have delayed the signing of an act declaratory of the demarkation of the frontier between Brazil and the Argentine Republic may soon be resolved. For the small section not comprehended in the demarkation, between the confluence of the Quarahim and the extreme western end of the island Brazileira, or island of Quarahim, we proposed a special treaty or convention, if the matter can not be resolved by means of a complementary and declaratory article. The mixed commission for the demarkation of the frontier between Brazil and Bolivia terminated its work in Matto Grosso, as well as the location of the Rio Verde, in the terms of the accord of February 8, 1907. This year, as soon as the condition of the streams permits, it will proceed to Amazonas to mark the boundaries from the Madeira to the confluence of the Yaverija with the Alto Acre, as this is the meeting point of the new Peru-Bolivian boundary according to the protocol signed at La Paz on the 17th of September last by the plenipotentiaries of Bolivia and Peru. I am going to encourage the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of commerce and navigation which we celebrated separately with each of the Republics of Ecuador and Colombia, signed at Rio de Janeiro, the first on May 10, 1907, and the second on August 21, 1909, both having already received your approval. The legislative decrees authorizing these exchanges bear, respectively, Nos. 2086 and 2247, under the dates of August 10, 1909, and of the 27th of April last. The Brazil-Peruvian accord, signed at Lima on April 15, 1908, for the navigation of the Rio Japura, or Caqueta, was approved by the national congress and sanctioned by the legislative decree No. 2098, of the 14th of September last, which approved it. I trust that the conclusion of the treaties of commerce and navigation with Bolivia and Chile may not be delayed. The first of these is becoming more and more urgent on account of its being an obligation assumed in the boundary treaty of November 17, 1903. In a message of July 13, 1907, there was submitted to your decision a convention to determine the status of naturalized citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin, this agreement being signed on August 23, 1906, at the Third Pan American Conference; and in another message, of May 22, 1908, the convention which, for the same purpose, we signed at Rio de Janeiro on April 27 of this year with the United States of America, was also recommended to you. The first was sanctioned by decree No. 2115, of October 8, 1909, but its promulgation was effected only after the said convention was approved by the other Governments represented at the conference; the second was sanctioned by decree No. 2116, of September 8, 1909, and, after the exchange of ratifications in this city on the 28th of February, was promulgated by decree No. 7899 of the 10th of March last. There were signed in this city the following postal conventions: 1. With France, on June 3, 1909, for the exchange of parcels without declared value. 2. With the United States of America, on March 26 last, for the exchange of parcels. 3. With Germany, on the 20th of April last, for the same purpose. The first was submitted to your examination and decision in a message of November 17, 1909, and the last two in a message of the 23d of April last. In the other three contracting countries the agreements of this nature do not require legislative approval. In messages of June 11, September 8, November 23, and December 24 I submitted to your approval several treaties and conventions of general arbitration concluded by Brazil with different Governments of America, Europe, and Asia. The following are the agreements of this nature which we have celebrated: 1. Treaty with Chile, of May 18, 1899 (exchange of ratifications on Mar. 17, 1906). 2. Treaty with Argentina, of September 7, 1905 (ratifications exchanged on Dec. 5, 1908). 3. Convention with the United States of America, on January 23, 1909. 4. Convention with Portugal, on March 25, 1909. 5. Convention with France, on April 7, 1909. 6. With Spain, on April 8, 1909. 7. With Mexico, on April 11, 1909. 8. With Honduras, on April 26, 1909. 9. With Venezuela, on April 30, 1909. 14. With Great Britain, on June 18, 1909. 15. Treaty with Bolivia, on June 25, 1909. 16. Convention with Nicaragua, on June 28, 1909. 17. With Norway, on July 13, 1909. 18. With China, on August 3, 1909. 19. With Salvador, on September 3, 1909. 20. Treaty with Peru, on December 7, 1909. 21. With Sweden, on December 14, 1909. 22. With Haiti, on April 25, 1910. 23. With the Dominican Republic, on April 28, 1910 All of the treaties and conventions from Nos. 3 to 20 have already been submitted to your examination. Other agreements of the same nature are being negotiated. The Brazil-Bolivian Arbitral Tribunal, which held its sessions in this city under the presidency of the Nonce Apostolique, terminated its labors on the 3d of November last. It began on May 20, 1905, and interrupted its session on May 20, 1906, resuming them again on November 3, 1908. During the first of these periods it was principally occupied with its organization and the study and examination of reclamations presented; during the second, it judged all of these reclamations. The Brazil-Peruvian Arbitral Tribunal continues its sessions here, also under the presidency of the Nonce Apostolique. If there be no new postponement it should terminate its labors on July 31. The International Conference of Jurisconsults, which was to meet this year at Rio de Janeiro, was postponed to May 21, 1911. It will be composed, as you know, of delegates from the American Republics and will be called upon to organize a code of public international law and another of private international law. Brazil was, and continues to be, represented at the International Conference of Maritime Law at Brussels. It also sent representatives to the following congresses and conferences: Third International Congress of History and Music, in Vienna (May 25 to June 2, 1909); Fourth International Lacticinium Congress, at Budapest (June 1909); Second International Congress charged with determining the nomenclature of the causes of death, in Paris (June 1 to 3, 1909); Seventeenth International Irrigation Congress, at Spokane (August 9 to 14, 1909); Second International Congress for the Protection of Infants, Budapest (August 28, 1909); Fifth International Congress of the Resistance of Materials, in Copenhagen (September, 1909); and the International Medical Congress, Budapest. With the presidential message of November 16 of last year there were remitted to you: 1. The convention of August 23, 1906, relative to patents and inventions, industrial models and designs, trade-marks and copyrights. 2. The resolution of August 7, 1906, reorganizing the international office of the American Republics. 3. The resolution of August 23, 1906, with reference to the Pan American Railway. 4. The resolution of August 13, 1906, recommending the creation of special dependent sections of the foreign office and specifying their functions. 5. The resolution of August 23, 1906, recommending the celebration of an international American conference which should adopt efficient measures for the benefit of products of coffee. All of these international acts are awaiting legislative action. The following foreign adhesions to acts to which Brazil is a party were communicated to us: 1. Of the Empire of Ethiopia to the Universal Postal Convention; decree No. 7,441, of June 24, 1909. 2. Of the Colony of Surinam to the agreements of Rome of May 26, 1906, relative to letters and boxes with declared value and the mode of collection; decree No. 7,624, of October 21, 1909. 3. Of Servia to the additional act of Brussels modifying the international convention of March 20, 1883, for the protection of industrial property; decree No. 7,840, of January 27, 1909. PREFERENTIAL TARIFF CONCESSIONS IN FAVOR OF AMERICAN PRODUCTS. File No. 18643/13. Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State. [Telegram-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN EMBASSY, Petropolis, January 16, 1910. Ambassador Dudley reports that Brazil has granted to the United States a differential tariff reduction of 20 per cent during 1910 on 11 articles which were so favored in 1909, and which will be construed to include alarm clocks, and in addition cement, desks, dried fruit, school furniture, and corsets. File No. 18643/15. No. 474.] Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State. [Extract.] 1 AMERICAN EMBASSY, Petropolis, January 17, 1910. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith the list 1 communicated to this Government, of articles of American production proposed for preferential treatment. Of those articles the following,1 when imported into Brazil during 1910, have been granted a reduction of 20 per cent from the general tariff rates by an executive decree of the 15th instant, a translation of which may be found herewith. The effect of the decree is to add to our preferential list, as it has stood during the past few years, cement, dried fruits, alarm clocks, desks, corsets, and furniture for schools. I have, etc., IRVING B. DUDLEY. [Inclosure Translation.] Continues in force during the present year decree No. 6079 of June 30, 1906, including other articles when imported on and after this date. The President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil, availing himself of the authorization contained in article 6 of law No. 1144, of the 30th of December, 1903, continued in force by article 13 of law No. 2210, of the 28th of December last, resolves that decree No. 6079, of June 30, 1906, be observed during the present year, there being added to the articles mentioned in it the following: Cement, corsets, dried fruits, furniture for schools, and desks; provided that the reduction in duties in reference to the latter shall be given effect only when they are dispatched from this time on. Rio de Janeiro, January 16, 1910, eighty-ninth year of the independence and twentysecond of the Republic. File No. 18643/13. NILO PEÇANHA. The Secretary of State to Ambassador Dudley. [Telegram-Paraphrase.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Mr. Knox directs Ambassador Dudley to express the high appreciation of the Government of the United States of the action of the Brazilian Congress in extending and continuing the list of American. products to enjoy preferential tariff treatment. 1 Not printed. BULGARIA. EXTRADITION OF VAHAN NALBANDIAN GRANTED BY BULGARIA AS AN ACT OF GRACE. File No. 21614/4. Chargé Harvey to the Secretary of State. [Telegram-Paraphrase.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Bucharest, February 5, 1914. Mr. Harvey says that Vahan Nalbandian, who is wanted by the police of Lynn, Mass., for murder, is held by the Bulgarian authorities, and that if extradition papers are sent at once the prisoner will be surrendered upon their presentation. File No. 21641/9. Chargé Harvey to the Secretary of State. No. 52, Bulgarian series.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Bucharest, February 5, 1910. SIR: I have the honor to report on January 8 I received from Mr. Thomas M. Burckes, chief of police of Lynn, Mass., a communication stating that one Vahan Nalbandian had been indicted by the grand jury of Essex County in that State for the murder of one Minas K. Monigan, and that the said Nalbandian was supposed to be at Silistra, Bulgaria. He inclosed a circular police description, with pictures of the accused, and asked that the Bulgarian authorities be communicated with and the man apprehended and placed under arrest to await the receipt of extradition papers from his Government. I immediately went to the Bulgarian Legation in this city and communicated to them the request as above stated, and gave them the circular and picture of the accused. Yesterday I received a letter from the State's attorney (procureur du tribunal), of Silistra, Theodore Maneff, stating that Nalbandian has been arrested and had acknowledged that he was the person wanted by the Lynn police. After consultation with the Bulgarian Legation as to whether their Government would permit the extradition of the accused, there being no treaty of convention of extradition between the two countries, I telegraphed the Bulgarian foreign office, stating that Nalbandian was wanted by the American police for a murder committed at Lynn, and that he had been arrested in Bulgaria and was now being held on my demand, and asked whether the Bulgarian Government would permit his extradition upon the presentation of the necessary papers, and whether they would hold the prisoner until such papers should arrive. In response, I received a telegram last night from the Bulgarian Government stating that they had instructed their legation here how to act in the matter. This morning I received a message by telephone from the Bulgarian Legation that their Government would surrender the accused on the presentation of proper extradition papers if the same were sent without delay. I immediately telegraphed the department that the accused was wanted by the Lynn police and that the Bulgarian authorities would surrender him on presentation of the proper extradition papers. I have, etc., [Inclosure-Translation-Telegram.] ROLAND B. HARVEY. Chargé Harvey to the Bulgarian Minister for Foreign Affairs. AMERICAN LEGATION. Bucharest, February 4, 1910. Vahan Nalbandian, sought for by American police for murder at Lynn, Mass., is held by Bulgarian authorities at Tirnove on my request. Will the Bulgarian Government grant extradition upon presentation of necessary documents, and will it retain the prisoner until the arrival of the said documents from America? File No. 21641/10. Chargé Harvey to the Secretary of State. No. 54, Bulgarian series.] HARVEY. AMERICAN LEGATION, Bucharest, February 7, 1910. SIR: Referring to the matter of the extradition of Vahan Nalbandian, the subject of my No. 52, Bulgarian series, of the 5th instant, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy and translation of a note this day received from the Bulgarian Legation in this city, stating that they will surrender the said Nalbandian, and a copy of my reply thereto. I have, etc., [Inclosure-Translation.] ROLAND B. HARVEY. No. 78-Urgent.] The Royal Bulgarian Legation to Chargé Harvey. [Note verbale.] BUCHAREST, January 23, 1910. In reply to the verbal requests made by M. le Chargé d'Affaires of the United States in regard to the search for and arrest of one Vahan Nalbandian, the royal legation of Bulgaria has the honor to inform the legation of the United States of America that according to a communication from the royal ministry for foreign affairs the individual in question has just been arrested by the authorities of Silistra. In bringing the foregoing to the knowledge of the honorable legation of the United States the royal legation of Bulgaria has the honor to beg it to take the necessary steps at its earliest convenience and request the extradition of the said V. Nalbandian of the royal Government, annexing the necessary papers. [Inclosure 2.] Chargé Harvey to the Royal Bulgarian Legation. [Note verbale.] AMERICAN LEGATION, The diplomatic agency of the United States of America has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note verbale of the royal legation of Bulgaria of January 23 and February 5, in which the royal legation informs this agency that Vahan Nalbandian |