Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 8, 1885

No. 696.

Mr. Scott to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, July 9, 1885. (Received July 21.)

No. 19.]

Sir: On the eve of the departure of the steamer Caracas for the United States, I received the inclosed communication from the minister of exterior relations, in which he announces that the decree of the 30th of June, in regard to the Justicia Nacional, and referred to in my dispatch No. 12, as inclosure No. 1, has been amended so as to include the steamer El Torito. I have the honor to submit the same to your consideration, with previous dispatches on the same subject.

I have, &c.,

CHARLES L. SCOTT.

[Inclosure 1 in No. 19.—Translation.]

Mr. Qüenza to Mr. Scott.

Caracas, July 9, 1885.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose a copy of No. 3556 of the Official Gazette, in which is inserted the executive decree of the 7th instant, declaring pirates the steamers Justicia Nacional and El Torito, formerly the Annette, the previous decree of June 30 being so far modified.

Accept, &c.,

BENJ. QÜENZA.

[Inclosure 2 in No. 19.]

Mr. Scott to Mr. Qüenza.

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, July 9, 1885.

Sir: I have received your communication of the 9th instant informing me that the decree issued by your Government on the 30th of June, 1885, had been so amended as to include the steamer El Torito. This fact has already been announced and will be conveyed to my Government by the mail steamer which takes its departure for the United States on to-morrow.

Accept, &c.,

CHARLES L. SCOTT.