lowing note of the Secretary of
State, addressed to the delegates:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, November 11, 1907.

EXCELLENCIES: The plenipotentiaries of the five
Central American republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador, appointed by their
respective Governments in pursuance of the protocol
signed in Washington on September 17, 1907, having
arrived in the city of Washington for the purposes
of the conference contemplated in the said protocol, I
have the honor to request that the said plenipotentiaries,
together with the representatives of the United Mexican
States and of the United States of America, appointed
pursuant to the second article of said protocol, convene
in the building of the Bureau of American Republics in
the city of Washington, on the fourteenth day of
November, instant, at half past two in the afternoon.

I avail myself of this opportunity to offer to Your
Excellencies the assurances of my highest consideration.

ELIHU ROOT.

The formal sessions of the conference began December 13, and
closed December 20. During this period nine treaties and
conventions were concluded between the five republics, as
follows:

1. A general treaty of peace and amity.

2. A convention additional to the general treaty of peace
and amity.

3. A convention for the establishment of a Central American
court of justice.

4. A protocol additional to the convention for the
establishment of a Central American court of justice.

5. An extradition convention.

6. A convention for the establishment of an International
Central American Bureau.

7. A convention for the establishment of a Central American
pedagogical institute.

8. A convention concerning future Central American
Conferences.

9. A convention concerning railway communications.

The most important were the general treaty of peace and
amity, and the convention for the establishment of a Central
American court of justice. The texts of these various
conventions are found in Malloy's _Treaties and Conventions
of the United States_, Volume II, pp. 2391-2420.

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