[Inclosure 1 in No. 121.]
Mr. Foster to Mr.
Lafragu.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, February 28,
1874.
Sir: In transmitting to the Department of State
at Washington a copy of the memoir of the minister of finance of Mexico,
I called attention to the fact that said memoir, in giving a statement
of the public debt of the government of Mexico, made no mention of the
bonds sold in, and mainly held by, citizens of the United States. I also
stated in my dispatch that the Hon. Mr. Mejia, minister of finance, had
kindly offered to have prepared and sent to me a detailed statement of
said bonds. In a dispatch under date of January 29, the Secretary of
State informs me that the statement indicated by the honorable minister
of finance will be awaited with interest. Should your excellency’s
government see proper to send to me such statement, I will take pleasure
in forwarding it to the Department of State at Washington.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
121.—Translation.]
Mr. Mejia to Mr.
Lafragua.
Department of Finance,
Mexico, March 6,
1874.
Citizen Minister of Foreign
Affairs:
Under date of yesterday the citizen treasurer-general of the nation says
to me the following:
“In compliance with the supreme order No. 616, of yesterday, to the
effect that I send you, as quickly as possible, a statement of Mexican
bonds issued in the New York market, I have the honor to report as
follows: 1. That of the $2,950,000 of bonds issued in San Carlos de
Tamaulipas on the 4th of July, 1865, by the Citizen-General J. M. J.
Carbajal, there remain unfunded $1,438,050, in 6,368 bonds, as
follows:
| 695 |
bonds, letter L, of $50 each |
$34,750 |
| 3,583 |
bonds, letter C, of $100 each |
358,300 |
| 2,090 |
bonds, letter D, of $500 each |
1,045,000 |
| 6,368 |
bond, of the value of |
1,438,050 |
“2. That of the $10,000,000 in bonds, issued by the Citizen-General
Gaspar Sanchez Ochoa, in San Francisco, Cal., on the 1st of July, 1865,
there remain unfunded $500,000, and these, according to the data
existing in this treasury, are detained in the custody of Eugene Kelly
& Co., of New York, by order of supreme court of that State. The
numeration of the bonds corresponding to said $500,000 is not specified,
because no information is obtainable as to the numeration of those which
were lost at sea in May, 1868, on board the steamer Nevada, which
represented a value of $3,750,000, nor of the actual bonds detained in
the hands of Kelly & Co., as above mentioned.”
And I have the honor to transcribe the above to you, as the result of
your communication of the 2d instant.
Independence and liberty.
