Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Moulton to Mr. Day.

Consulate of the United States,
Demerara, British Guiana, May 4, 1898.

No. 3.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that in obedience to superior authority a proclamation¹ of neutrality to be observed between Spain and the United States has been issued and published in British Guiana and Dutch Guiana.

I inclose the proclamation as published in British Guiana.

I am, etc.,

George H. Moulton,
United States Consul.

1. Not printed. The proclamation, after the formal preamble, quotes the terms of the act in regard to the conduct of British subjects and of the rules governing ships of belligerents given in the proclamation of neutrality of Great Britain, see p. 865.