Barberena , The Minister of the Government to A true copy. Managua , January 6, 1875 . Barberena, January 6, 1875

DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA.

the government.

Inasmuch as the district of the Mosquitia Reserve, as an integral part of the territory of the republic and subject to her sovereignty, needs the inspection and immediate supervision of the executive; as this inspection is made so much the more necessary since, according to positive information, the chief of the Mosquitia Indians of the said reserve is inclined to assume a character that does not correspond to, nor is permitted by, the laws; since, for the same reason, it is the duty of the government to take measures of avoiding that in said district abuses should be committed that would redound to the injury of the sovereignty of the nation, and considering that one of these measures is to extend to the said district the jurisdiction of the govern or-intendent of San Juan del Norte in the use of its powers, decrees:

• The governor-intendent of San Juan del Norte, in addition to the powers that by the laws belong to him in the district of his command, will exercise jurisdiction in that of the Mosquitia Reserve, in all that is not opposed to the usuages and customs of the inhabitants of said reserve, and the regulations that may have been adopted not being incompatible with the sovereign rights of Nicaragua.
• In consequence, the governor-intendent will watch that in the district of the reserve the sovereignty of Nicaragua may be respected, and that those authorities, in the exercise of their functions, may be solely limited to a purely municipal rule, which is the only one that is permitted by the convention of the 28th of January, 1860.
• The governor-intendent will likewise take care that in the local administration of said district no foreign authority shall intermeddle, and that the regulations that are issued shall not oppose in any manner the sovereign rights of the nation.
• The governor-intendent will himself also take care that in the said district the consuls of foreign nations that come to establish themselves in it shall obtain their exequaturs from the government of the republic, without which requisite they shall not be able to perform duties.
• The present decree is additional to the regulations of the port of San Juan del Norte of the 20th of February, 1861.

Let it be communicated.