Announcement of the regency ministry., December 31, 1874

Announcement of the regency ministry.

[From the “Gaceta de Madrid,” December 31, 1874.]

DECREE.

Proclaímed by the nation and the army, the King Don Alfonso de Borbon y Borbon, the case has arrived for the use of the powers which, by royal decree of the 22d of August, 1873, were conferred Upon me. In virtue thereof, and in the name of His Majesty the King, I hereby decree as follows:

The regency-ministry, which is to govern the kingdom until the arrival of the King Don Alfonso in Madrid, shall be composed, under my presidency, of the following persons: Minister of state, Don Alejandro Castro, formerly minister of the treasury and the colonies and ambassador in Rome; minister of grace and justice, Don Franciso de Cárdenas, ex-counsellor of state; minister of war, Lieutenant-General Don Joaquin Jovellar, general-in-chief of the army of the center; minister of finance, Don Pedro Salaverria, formerly minister of public works and of finance; minister of marine, Don Mariano Roca de Togo res, marques of Molins, formerly minister of marine and public works and now director of the Spanish academy; minister of gobernacion, Don Francisco Romero Robledo, ex-minister of public works; minister of public works, Don Manuel de Orovio, marquis of Orovio, formerly minister of finance and of public works; minister of ultramar, Don Adelardo Lopez de Ayala, ex-minister of ultramar,