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

No. 30.
Mr. Mathews to Mr. Fish.

Consulate of the United States of America,
Tangier, September 21, 1874. (Received October 23.)

No. 146.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the translation of a letter which I have received from Cid Mohamed Bargash, in reply to the note which, in concert with the other foreign representatives, I addressed to him on the 24th ultimo,^* in regard to the state of affairs existing at Tangier.

You will observe that the Pasha has been recalled to the Court, and that Cid Aly Mesfeeroy, one of the Sultan’s secretaries, who has been sent to Tangier to investigate into the claims of foreign subjects against governors and shicks, has been appointed temporarily to rule over the Kabyles.

The Pasha, Kaid Mohamed Emkished, left Tangier yesterday for the Sultan’s Court.

I have, &c.,

FELIX A MATHEWS.

[Inclosure in No. 146.—Translation.]

Mohamed Bargash to Mr. Mathews.

September 19, 1874.

(After the usual compliments.)

We have received your letter dated the 24th August, regarding the state of the Kabyles in the neighborhood of Tangier which revolted against the governor, and you demanded that a remedy should be put to such state of affairs.

We transmitted your representation to our lord the Sultan, and His Majesty has ordered the governor to proceed to the Sheriffian Court, and directed his secretary, Cid Aly Mesfeeroy, to rule over the Kabyles above mentioned for the present until further orders.

We acquaint you of this for your information. Friendship and peace.

MOHAMED BARGASH.

1. See Foreign Relations for 1874, p. 42.