Mr. Partridge to Mr.
Gresham.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States,
Caracas, May 25, 1893.
(Received June 10.)
No. 40.]Sir: With reference to the Department’s instruction
No. 5, of February 8 and my dispatch No. 4 of March 8, relative to the
transshipment of freight at Curacao, I now have the honor to report that on
the 22d instant the Government of Venezuela issued a decree restoring’ the
privilege of transferring freight at that island. A copy of the decree and a
translation thereof are inclosed herewith. The reference therein to a
possible new port on the west coast more suitable for transferring freight
is not restrictive of the operation of the decree.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure in No.
40.—Translation.]
United
States of Venezuela,
Ministry of Finance, Direction of
Custom-House,
Caracas, May 22,
1893.
Resolved, In view of the various inconveniences
and difficulties which the importing commerce of the West now experience
in making at Puerto Cabello the transfer of merchandise which is
forwarded from Europe and the United States of North America in ships
which can not enter the ports to which said merchandise is destined, the
chief of the National Executive, desirous always of affording to
commerce the greatest facilities for the execution of its legitimate
operations, has been pleased to decree, that from this date and until
there is furnished on the west coast of the Republic a more suitable
port in which the transfer of such goods can be made conveniently on
Venezuelan territory, they may continue being transferred in Curacao in
the same manner and upon the same terms as was permitted by the
executive decree of January 26, 1883, which is declared in force in all
its parts, the resolution of the 30th of December last, referring to
this same matter, being in consequence annulled.
Let it be communicated and published.
By the National Executive.
Ezequiel Gondelles
Ayala.
