811.7337C73/12
The President of the Commercial Cable Company
(Mackay) to the Second Assistant Secretary of State
(Adee)
New
York, October 14,
1920.
[Received October 14.]
Sir: Replying to your letter of October
12th.,70 I have
pleasure in enclosing herewith, for your information, copy of a
translation of Decree No. 857, dated May 27th, 1920, published in the
Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba,
containing the conditions under which this Company has been allowed to
lay its cable from Miami to Havana.
Yours respectfully,
[Enclosure—Translation71]
Executive Decree No. 857, May 27, 1920, Granting
a Cable Concession to the Commercial Cable Company72
On the petition filed by the Superintendent of the Commercial Cable
Company of Cuba, applying for permission to land at its present site
the terminal of another submarine cable which is to place this
Capital in communication with the City of Miami, Florida,
U.S.A.;
On the advice of the Director General of Communications and on the
recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior;
Be it resolved:
Art. 1. To grant to the Commercial Cable
Company of Cuba permission to land in agreement with the Government
of Cuba and at the site they now have, the terminal of another
submarine cable which will have its other terminal at the city of
Miami.
[Page 67]
[Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are the same, mutatis mutandis, as the corresponding articles of the
concession granted the All America Cables, Incorporated, Decree No.
1197, printed on page 63.]
Art. 9. The permission granted in this
decree to operate and maintain a cable service between Cuba and the
city of Miami shall become operative from and after the date of the
publication of this decree in the Gaceta
Oficial.
Charles Hernandez
Secretary of the Interior
