No. 294.
Mr. Hamlin
to Mr. Frelinghuysen
.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States,
Madrid
,
October 12, 1882.
(Received November 6.)
No. 98.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 62, relating to
the duty imposed on live fish imported into Cuba in foreign bottoms, I have
now the honor to inclose herewith, for your further information, a copy and
translation of a note upon the subject, from the ministry of state, dated
the 6th instant, by which you will observe that His Majesty the King has
ordered that Article III of the law of the 7th July last, relating to the
gradual abolition of differential duties in Cuba and Porto Rico, be complied
with, in case the reductions provided for in said Article III should be
applied to the United States.
* * * * * * *
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure in No.
98.—Translation.]
The Marquis de la Vega de
Armijo to Mr. Hamlin
.
Ministry of
State,
Palace
,
October 6, 1882.
Excellency: In view of your note of 29th April
ultimo, applying for the derogation of the royal order, which imposed a
duty of 75 millesimes of escudo upon live fish in foreign bottoms, and
considering that the terms of Article III of the law of 7th July ultimo,
for the suppression of the differential flag duty, require reciprocity
for any reduction of the tariff which may prove beneficial to foreign
nations, the King, my august sovereign, has been pleased to order that
the provisions of said royal order be adhered to, subject to the
consideration of a request, if the case should arise, for the
application to the United States of the benefits provided for in Article
III of said law.
I avail myself, &c.,
EL MARQUES DE LA VEGA DE ARMIJO.
