Treaty of peace between the established and the revolutionary governments of Salvador—General Menendez, the revolutionary chief, assumes the Presidency in a provisional character., the 19th of June, 1885

Treaty of peace between the established and the revolutionary governments of Salvador—General Menendez, the revolutionary chief, assumes the Presidency in a provisional character.

We have been favored with a copy of the agreement entered into on the 19th instant between General Don Francisco Menendez and Señor Don José Rosales, holding the executive power, residing in San Salvador, as follows:

General Don Francisco Menendez, provisional President of the Republic, and Seño-Don José Rosales, in charge of the executive power, residing in San Salvador, animated by an ardent desire to re-establish tranquillity and order, and of putting an end to the horrors of a civil war which unfortunately afflicts all Salvadorians, and throwing a veil over the past, have appointed commissioners to arrange a peace upon just and equitable bases; to that end General Menendez has designated Dr. Don Jacinto Castellanos, and Señor Rosales has named Dr. Don Rafael Ayala and Dr. Don Manuel Trigueros, who, after having presented their full powers, and finding them in due form, have agreed to the following:

• Señor Rosales recognizes the provisional government, presided over by General Don Francisco Menendez.
• General Menendez recognizes as a debt of the nation all that has been contracted by General Don Fernando Figueroa during the time he has exercised the supreme command, as also whatever Señor Rosales may have contracted in the same character.
• All the employés, civil and military, who have served during the administration of the said General Figueroa shall have full guarantees, and shall not be molested in their persons or property for their political opinions and offenses.
• The troops now stationed in San Salvador shall be disbanded to-morrow precisely, except two hundred men, under the command either of General Don Constantine Ambrogi, General Don Salvador Avila, or of Colonel Don José Maria Angulo. The arms shall be deposited in the national stores.
• The auxiliary troops of Nicaragua stationed in San Salvador shall proceed, at the latest on the 23d instant, to Zaragoza or to La Libertad, to join those who have last arrived at that port, there to re-embark as soon as possible. Those now at San Miguel or La Union will also re-embark in the last-named port immediately, and none of them shall be molested in any way while they remain in the country.
• It being a part of the programme of the provisional government to convoke a constituent assembly for the formation of a new fundamental law which shall guarantee the rights of Salvadorians in an efficient and permanent manner, General Menendez shall make such convocation as soon as possible, and giving to the people the most ample liberty in the election of their representatives.
• General Menendez declares that his only and exclusive object in placing himself at the head of the popular insurrection has been to establish in Salvador an honest government emanated from the national will.
• The liberating army and all the employés of the provisional government shall enter San Salvador the day General Menendez may be pleased to designate, and Señor Rosales will give the necessary orders, so that upon due notice sufficient provisions be prepared for the said army.
• The present agreement shall be transmitted by telegraph to General Menendez and Señor Rosales, so that they may, if approved, transmit their approval by the same medium, which shall be obligatory upon the contracting parties, in the act of exchanging such ratifications.

The minister plenipotentiary of Nicaragua, Don Modesto Barrios, who was present during these negotiations, manifested his satisfaction on account of the termination of the civil war in this Republic, and that to this end all his efforts have been directed since his arrival in the capital.