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I submit to the Senate for it's consideration, with a view to ratification, a Treaty of Extradition concluded by Mr. Corwin with the Mexican Government on the 11th. December, last.
I also submit a Postal Convention concluded by that gentleman, at the same time, and a copy of his despatch of the 24th. of the same month, explanatory of the provisions of both these instruments, and the reasons for the non-ratification by Mexico of the Postal Convention concluded in this city on the 31st. July last, and approved by the Senate on the 6th. August.
A copy of a letter from the Postmaster General to the Secretary of State in relation to Mr. Corwin's Postal Convention, is, also, herewith communicated. The advice of the Senate as to the expediency of accepting that Convention as a substitute for the one of the 31st. July, last, is requested. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Washington 28 January 1862.
Annotation
[1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37B B13. The convention was ratified without amendment on February 10; the treaty was reported with amendments on February 19 and after further amendment on April 8 was ratified on April 9, 1862. The delay in ratification of the treaty made necessary an extension of the time limit for exchange of ratifications. See Lincoln to the Senate, April 15, infra.