Mr. Partridge to Mr.
Gresham.
Legation of
the United States,
Caracas, July 25, 1893.
(Received August 10.)
No. 66.]
Sir: With reference to my dispatch No. 64, of the
22d instant, relative to port facilities for mail steamers, I have now the
honor to transmit a copy and translation of the decree therein referred to,
which appeared in the Gazeta Oficial of last evening.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
66.—Translation.]
United
States of Venezuela,
Ministry of War and Marine,
Direction of Marine,
Caracas, July 21,
1893.
Official Gazette, July 24, 1893.
Resolved, Having considered in cabinet the
petition which Messrs. H. L. Boulton & Co., agents of the American
Red D Line of steamers, have addressed to this office, in which they
request of the Government an equivalent resolution to that which this
Ministry dictated under date of the 7th instant authorizing the
administrators of the customs of the Republic, in their character of
captains of the port, to concede preference in the ports and wharves to
postal steamers of the General French Transatlantic Company of Venezuela
for loading and discharging cargo, and considering that the steamers of
the Red D Line are under identical conditions, because they are also
postal steamers subsidized for that purpose by the Government of the
United States of North America, the charge” of the executive power of
the Republic has been pleased to accede to said petition, it having to
be observed that in case of the arrival together of the mail steamers of
these two companies that one shall take priority which first makes fast
to the wharf. Let it be communicated and published.
By the National Executive.
