Office of the Historian

No. 297.
Mr. Adee to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, June 28, 1877. (Received July 16.)
No. 590.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatches numbered 503 and 507, on the subject of the royal order on judicial procedure, I have the honor to inform you that Mr. Silvela has communicated to me a copy of a note addressed to him by Mr. Cánovas del Castillo, officially advising him that the protocol of January 12, 1877, was transmitted on the 8th of April last by the presidency of the council to the ministries of grace and justice, war, marine, and ultramar.

The minister of ultramar told me some time since that the protocol was immediately communicated by royal order to the governors-general of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

Translation of the communication of the president of the council to the minister of state is hereto appended.

I have, &c.,

A. AUGUSTUS ADEE.
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[Inclosure.—Translation.]

The president of the council to the minister of state.

Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Excellency: For the due effect, I have the honor to inform your excellency that under date of the 8th of April ultimo there was given to the ministers of grace and justice, war, marine, and ultramar literal copy of the protocol signed on the 12th of January last with the representative of the United States, relative to the rules which are to be followed for procedure in cases of infidencia charged against citizens of the Union.

By royal order I communicate the foregoing to you for your cognizance and the due effects.

May God guard you many years.

Madrid, June 20, 1877.

A. CÁNOVAS DEL CASTILLO.

To the Minister of State.

A true copy.

(Rubricated by Mr. Manuel Silvela.)