File No. 7622/1.
The Acting Secretary of
State to Minister Morgan.
Department of State,
Washington, July 18,
1907.
No. 143.]
Sir: I inclose a copy of a lettera from Mr. F. W. Bacot, of
Charleston, S. C, making inquiries concerning the value of a Cuban bond.
A copy of the bond is also inclosed.
You are requested to ascertain the value of the bond and to return the
copy thereof to the department with your reply.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Copy of bond.
The Republic of Cuba, through José Morales Lemus, president of the
Central Republican Junta of Cuba and Porto Rico, acting under
special authority, hereby acknowledges itself bound to the bearer in
the sum of $500, with interest thereon at the rate of 7 per centum
per annum from date hereof, said interest to be paid at the times
and upon the conditions following, viz, after the ratification of a
treaty of peace between the Government of Spain and the Republic of
Cuba, or after the overthrow of the authority of the Spanish
Government in the island of Cuba, or after the recognition by the
Government of the United States of America of the political
independence of the island of Cuba, and on the 31st day of July of
the year succeeding that on which such ratification, overthrow of
Spanish authority, or recognition of independence should take place,
the said Republic will pay in the city of New York the interest then
accrued hereon, and thereafter will so pay as well the interest
accruing hereon semiannually on the 31st days of January and July in
each year, as the said principal sum of $500, ten years after the
first payment of interest. The Government of said Republic reserves
the right to pay the principal hereof on any interest day succeeding
the first payment of interest. And to the performance and payment of
this obligation the honor and faith of the people of Cuba is hereby
pledged in the name of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, President of the
Republic.
New York,
this 1st day of
June, A. D. 1869.
