No. 529.
Mr. Bayard to Mr.
Reed.
Department
of State,
Washington, March 23,
1885.
No. 322.]Sir: Referring to instruction No. 312 of the 27th
ultimo, I inclose in the case of the Ocean Pearl, fined at Stanzas, a copy
of a dispatch from our consul there and also a certificate which he
transmitted touching the ten empty hogsheads mentioned in the above
instructions.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 322.]
Mr. Vickers to Mr.
Davis.
United
States Consulate,
Stanzas, February 20,
1885.
No. 116.]Sir: I herewith inclose certificate of Edward
K. Sparks, esq., of the firm of Isaac Hough & Co., of Philadelphia,
relating to the shipment of 235 empty molasses hogsheads in place of 245
as manifested, the absence of which caused the fine to be imposed on the
American barkentine Ocean Pearl.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 322.]
Affidavit of Edward K. Sparks.
Personally appeared before me Edward K. Sparks, of the firm of Isaac
Hough &, Co., shipping and commission merchants doing business in
Philadelphia, who deposes and says that his firm shipped on the Ocean
Pearl, bound for Stanzas, on or about December 7, 1884, 235 empty
molasses hogsheads, not 245 as manifested, 10 of them having been left
on the wharf.
EDM. K. SPARKS.
Philadelphia, this 13th day of
February, 1885.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of
February, 1885.
[
seal.]
THOMAS M.
CRANE,
Notary
Public.
