No. 303.
Mr. Riotte to Mr.
Fish
No. 80.]
United States Legation, Leon, June 15, 1871.
(Received July 14.)
Sir: I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt
of your dispatches Nos. 52 and 53, of respectively April 26 and May 9
last.
The inclosed correspondence explains itself, and requires no additional
remarks of mine.
The parcel therein alluded to leaves with this dispatch, marked S. D.
I have the honor, &c.,
List of inclosures.
1. Copy of my note to Minister Balladares’s, of May 28 ultimo,
acknowledging the receipt of a parcel destined for the Government of the
United States.
2. Copy and translation of Mr. Ballarades’s note of June 10, advising me
of having dispatched another parcel with the same destination.
3. Copy of my note of this day to Mr. Balladares, acknowledging the
receipt of notes and parcel.
[Inclosure 1.]
Mr. Riotte to Mr.
Balladares.
United States Legation in
Nicaragua, Leon,
May 28, 1871.
Hon. Francisco Balladares, &c., &c., &c.:
* * * * I beg to advise you that the parcel of documents, pertaining to
your note of the 11th instant upon the canal across this republic, came
to my hands, and was forwarded to Washington on the 24th instant, and,
also, that I have received your dispatch of 15th instant, informing me
of the appointment of Mr. Rafael Zurita to be sub-secretary for foreign
relations.
I have the honor, &c.,
[Inclosure 2.—Translation.]
Mr. Balladares to Mr. Riotte.
Mr. C. N. Riotte, &c.,
&c.:
By your esteemed communication of the 28th ultimo, I was informed that
the parcel of documents relative to the interoceanic canal came to your
hands and was dispatched to Washington the 24th of the same month.
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I offer to your excellency my best thanks for your promptness. Since it
is the President’s constant wish to collect all possible documents
relating to that most grand enterprise, in order that the Government of
the United States may take cognizance thereof and estimate their merits,
he has ordered me to forward to you the report submitted to him by the
civil engineer of the republic, to the end that it may be, by your
intervention, sent to the high cognizance of his excellency the
President of the United States.
I have the pleasure, &c., &c.,
[Inclosure 3.]
Mr. Riotte to Mr.
Balladares.
United States Legation in
Nicaragua, Leon,
June 15, 1871.
Hon. Don Francisco Balladares, &c., &c.:
* * * I have the honor of herewith acknowledging the receipt of your note
of the 10th instant, and of a parcel directed to me, stamped with the
seal of your department, and delivered to me by Don Buenaventura Selva,
which I will forward to my Government with the next steamer, that of the
24th instant.
I beg Mr. Minister Balladares, &c.,
