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

No. 585.
Mr. Cushing to Mr. Fish.

[Telegram.]

Madrid, February 16, 1875.

Fish, Secretary of State, Washington:

Diplomatic convention by interchange of notes completed to-day, to the following effect, namely:

• First. Spain allows eighty thousand dollars in full of all indemnity. Second. Allowance unconditional. Third. All question of the hulk laid aside.
• Fourth. Full assertion on my part of illegality of the acts complained of.
• Fifth. Distribution to be made by the United States in their discretion.
• Sixth. No posterior accountability as was required of England.

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CUSHING.