Letter
Augustus Adee to Evarts, May 24, 1877
No. 295. Mr. Adee to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of the United States, Madrid, May 24, 1877. (Received June 11.)
No. 558.]
Sir: Today’s Gaceta publishes a bill to be presented to the Cortes by royal order of His Majesty, intended to foster commerce in Spanish bottoms with the Philippine Islands, by conceding, as a bounty, certain reductions from the regular tariff of customs-duties upon foreign merchandise imported into the ports of the Philippines under the Spanish flag.
This measure has been in abeyance since June, 1871. Its history and character are amply shown in the bill itself, which I transmit herewith, in copy and translation.
It will probably soon become a law, when I will take care to send you information of its promulgation.
I have, &c.,
A. AUGUSTUS ADEE.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.