Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 561.
Mr. Neill to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Lima, December 22, 1886. (Received January 8, 1887.)

No. 189.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication No. 112, dated November 30, 1886, as being in receipt of dispatch No. 171, of the 28th of October last, from this legation, in reference to an act of the Peruvian Congress, declaring null and void all “interior acts” of the Pierola and Iglesias governments.

I beg leave to state that the “decree” appeared in “El Comercio” of the 21st instant, signed by the President, Andres A. Caceres, and by Manuel Velarde, the then minister of government, and dated the 26th of October, 1886.

I have etc.,

Richard R. Neill.