[Extract.]
Mr. Clay to Mr.
Seward.
No. 52.]
Legation of the United States at the
Republic of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa,
October 25, 1865.
Sir: * * * * *
Your instructions contained in despatch No. 37 shall be implicitly
carried out and obeyed, and I herewith enclose to you a note dated the
23d instant, addressed to Don Francisco Cruz, minister of relations,
&c.
* * * * * * *
I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward,
Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
Mr. Clay to Mr. Cruz.
Legation of the United States at
the Republic of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa, October 23, 1865.
Sir: The minister resident of the United
States at this republic takes occasion to inform the minister of
relations, &c., of the government of this republic of the
following instructions received from the State Department at
Washington:
“With reference to the request for instructions you make in your
despatch of August 9th, 1865, as to the recognition of a provisional
President of Honduras, should a new constitution be adopted by the
convention which was to meet at Comayagua, in the latter part of
August, you are instructed not to make any recognition, and to take
no proceedings in that connection until the proposed reform shall be
consummated, and officially reported by you to the department.”
In transmitting the above to you for your information and
intelligence, I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your
obedient servant,
Don Francisco Cruz,
Minister of Relations and
Governacion.
