Sir: [The Secretary of State to the Minister of Portugal.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 16, 1915. The time specified in the Treaty of February 4, 1914, between the United States and Portugal, looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, for the appointment of the International Commission having expired, without the United States non-national Commissioner, the Portuguese Commissioners and the Joint Commissioner being named, I have the honor to suggest for the consideration of your Government that the time within which the organization of the Commission may be completed be extended from April 24, 1915 to April 24, 1916. Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, that your Government receives the suggestion favorably, will be regarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that it will be so regarded by your Government also. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. VISCOUNT DE ALTE, ROBERT LANSING The Minister of Portugal. Sir: [The Portuguese Minister to the Secretary of State.] LEGAÇÃO DE PORTUGAL NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of today's date suggesting the extension from April 24, 1915, to April 24, 1916, of the time within which the organization of the International Commission provided for in the Treaty of February 4, 1914, between Portugal and the United States looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, may be completed. I have the honour to inform you that the Portuguese Government fully concur with the suggestion made by the American Government and that this exchange of notes will be regarded by them as sufficient to give effect to the extension. I avail myself of this opportunity in order to convey to you, Sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. The Honourable ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State, etc., etc., etc. ALTE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, an Agreement between the United States of America and the Portuguese Republic extending for a further period of five years the arbitration convention concluded between them on April 6, 1908, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, the original of which Agreement, being in the English and Portuguese languages, is word for word as follows: |