Letter

Augustus Adee to Evarts, May 25, 1877

Author

Augustus Adee

Recipient

Evarts

Date

May 25, 1877

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 296. Mr. Adee to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States, Madrid, May 25, 1877. (Received June 11.)

Sir: In addition to the bill reported to you in my No. 558, of yesterday, the same number of the Gaceta publishes another bill having relation to foreign commerce with the Philippines.

It seems that in November last Admiral Malcampo, the governor-general of the Philippine Islands, in conformity with a decree of October 16, 1870, issued an order consolidating into one tonnage-due, assessed on the vessel, all the various charges previously levied for port and harbor-improvements, light-houses, &c. This decree of 1870 is, however, in conflict with a previous law assessing such dues on the tonnage-weights of the cargo, and not on the tonnage-measurement of the vessel, and it becomes necessary, therefore, to give to the new regulation like force as. a law, which is the object of the present bill.

Copy and translation of the bill, with its explanatory preamble, are herewith transmitted. You will be duly informed of its passage.

I have, &c.,

A. AUGUSTUS ADEE.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

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.