Office of the Historian

Mr. Smith to Mr. Day.

Consulate of the United States,
Curaçao, West Indies, May 12, 1898.
No. 6.]

Sir: I beg to inclose herewith two numbers of the official paper, De Curaca, osche Courant, of April 29 and May 6, containing some notifications1 in relation to the conditions of affairs between the United States and Spain. The last notification (of April 3) is accompanied by a translation.

I am, etc.,

L. B. Smith,
United States Consul.
[Translation.]

warning.

Government Secretary’s Office,
Curaçoa, May 3, 1898.

In view of the breaking out of the war between Spain and the United States of America, all inhabitants are warned, in the name of the governor of the colony, to engage in no manner whatever in the sale or exchange of, or other transactions with, prizes; to furnish no assistance or material for repairing men-of-war or privateers of the above-named nations; to take no part in equipping vessels presumptively destined for war or privateer service; and they are at the same time warned for their own interest not to deliver coal to such vessels without the knowledge of the governor.

The Government’s Secretary,
Hellmund.
  1. One inclosure; others not printed.↩