852.6363/97
The Chargé in Spain (Blair) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 12, 1928.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that a gift of one million pesetas has been made by the Concessionary Company of the Petroleum Monopoly as “Commission for the adjudication of the monopoly in its favor”.
In the Gaceta de Madrid of December 16th last there appeared a Royal Decree, copy of which is transmitted herewith, for the Department’s information,44 directing that the above sum be distributed among the employees of the enterprises engaged in the sale of petroleum affected by the monopoly who are discharged on account of the disappearance of such enterprises because of their incorporation in the above-mentioned monopoly.
[Page 717]It is further directed that a board composed of a delegate of the Treasury as President, an official of the civil Government and the provincial representative of the Petroleum Monopoly will prepare in each Province and send to the administrative headquarters, between the date of publication of the Decree and the end of the year, a report in which will figure the name of each employee who has been discharged or will be discharged up to the 1st of January, 1928, together with the firm in which he worked, his length of service, age, salary and family burdens.
Finally, a central committee, composed of the state representative of the Petroleum Monopoly Board as President and two advisors of the Monopoly, and two officials of the Monopoly Company, will consider the data submitted and determine for his Majesty’s Government the distribution of the million peseta gift.
I have [etc.]
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