Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume II

No. 596.
Mr. Cushing to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
Marid, April 21, 1875. (Received May 11.)

No. 356.]

Sir: In pursuance of the note addressed to me by the minister of state in the afternoon of Friday the 16th instant, of which copy is annexed to my No. 349, I called on the minister of Hacienda the next day, Saturday the 17th, and he immediately issued direction for the delivery of an order on the Bank of Spain for the sum of 225,000 pesetas,($45,000,) which I received late on the same day, and receipted for according to copy and translation annexed.

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I have the honor, &c.,

C. CUSHING.

[Inclosure 1 in No. 356.]

Receipt and treasury warrant for 225,000 pesetas paid to Mr. Cashing April 17, 1875.

[Translation.]

General direction of the treasury—Warrant office—Warrant of payment No. 203—No 1 of special registry—Operations of the treasury—First part of the account—General head, “Anticipated payments and funds advanced with obligation of repayment”—Special head “Ministry of state.”

The general director of the treasury to the central treasurer:

Be pleased to note in account and satisfy to his excellency the minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Mr. Caleb Cushing, in the kinds of money expressed in the margin, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand pesetas, on account of the four hundred thousand to which amounts the indemnification agreed upon for the relief of the families of the ship’s company and passengers of the steamer “Virginus,” captured in the island of Cuba in conformity with the order copied on the back hereof; bearing in mind that in order that the above-mentioned sum may be paid to him in account, the central accountant must register and note this warrant “before its payment be effected,” and that the receipt must be afterward signed by the legal personality in whose favor it is issued.

Madrid, April 17, 1875.

JUAN LOREN.

Classification of form of payment.

Gold, silver, copper, bank-notes; in all two hundred and twenty thousand pesetas. Registered the 17th day of April, 1875, in which the payment was effected.

The central accountant,

FERNANDO FERNANDEZ.

Entered as No. 1247 of the diary of the accountant’s office. Entered as No.— of the diary of the treasurer’s office.

Received the aforesaid sum in the kinds of money specified in the margin.

The party in interest.

C. CUSHING,
Minister of the United States of America.

Direction of the public treasury and general warrant office for payments from the state.

By royal order of the 7th instant, in accord with the council of ministers, this direction-general is authorized, under the item of “Advances by the treasury,” to the ministry of state, to pay to the Government of the United States of America the sum of four hundred thousand pesetas, amount of the indemnification agreed upon for the relief of the families of the ship’s company and passengers of the steamer “Virginius captured in the island of Cuba; in view thereof, this direction has ordered that on account of the said sum, and under the item mentioned, there be forthwith paid by the central treasury office to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at this court two hundred and twenty-five thousand pesetas, of the execution of which in this manner will be pleased to give advice. May God guard you many years.

Madrid, April 15, 1875.

PY. JUAN LOREN.

To the central accountant.

It is a copy. [Rubricated.]